New Contract cost Health insurance cost

By ROGER AMSDEN, LACONIA DAILY SUN 

LACONIA — Belknap County Commissioners on Friday evening affirmed a two-year contract with Belknap County Corrections Officers Union which significantly lessened medical coverage costs. 

The proposed contract still needs endorsement from the Belknap County Delegation which will meet on Monday, April 4, at 6 p.m., at the Belknap County Complex to consider cost things of the aggregate dealing assention. 

Medical coverage costs in the primary year of the assention will drop from $440,393 to $386,166 and in the second year of the understanding from $458,849 to $375,521. Those decreases mirror a change from the present HMO plan to a "site of administration arrangement." 

Every one of the 21 individuals from the Belknap County Corrections Officers Union two weeks prior voted in favor of the agreement, which gives a 1.4 percent salary increase in each of the two years, and additionally step expands, which could build add up to remuneration by 4.4 percent every year for qualified laborers. 

There is additionally an impetus reward of $1,000 in the primary year for workers who do the change to the site-of-administration arrangement, which accommodates $1,000, $2,000 and $3,000 deductibles on single, two-man and family arranges. 

The wellbeing motivating force reward adds $21,000 to 2016 costs, which alongside the typical cost for basic items and step increments and extra finance expenses and retirement costs build the aggregate expense of the agreement from $453,076 to $458,233, an expansion of $5,156. 

Be that as it may, in the second year of the agreement, when there is no medical coverage motivation reward, contact expenses will drop from $466,783 to $420,547, a $46,236 diminish.. 

The proposed contract is like the aggregate dealing understanding between Teamsters Local 633 and the area, which was affirmed by a 10-5 vote by the County Delegation last August.