Pierceton Employee Healthcare Changing
PIERCETON — Business was slow at this month’s Pierceton Town Council meeting Monday, Dec. 11, with the only new business for the board to discuss being changes to the town’s healthcare.
The board agreed to make no changes to the plan for December, but employee deductibles will be increasing to $3,000 in January as the town moves from Rosetta to Aim health insurance. The change will help save the town $6,609. To help offset the changes, a vision plan will be offered to employees at a cost of $531 to the town.
Pam Kennedy with Kosciusko Housing Authority was present to ask the board to make payment to contractors for completed projects. Kennedy also showed a new calendar made possible by the senior center in Warsaw, featuring those helped by the housing authority. Calendars are a fundraiser and are available for sale at the Warsaw Senior Center, 800 N. Park Ave., Warsaw, and D.C. Haircrafters, 138 N Harrison St, Warsaw.
Town marshal Tim Sammons introduced a community discussion series that will take place next year. Topics will include neighborhood watch, identity theft and internet safety. The series will be held in conjunction with the elementary school and will be available to the whole Whitko community.
Pierceton Elementary Principal Mike McClain was present to praise Sammons’s work and the relationship Sammons and Officer Jim Bumbaugh have formed with Pierceton kids as a DARE officer and bus driver, respectively.
“I appreciate the role modeling they do,” said McClain. “Thank you for allowing them to come into our schools.”
In other business:
- The Town Employee Handbook was approved.
- The year end meeting will be 6 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 27.