Wednesday, June 27, 2007
Weathersfield also approved a new health insurance plan.
By MARY SMITH
VINDICATOR CORRESPONDENT
MINERAL RIDGE — Weathersfield Township trustees awarded a $108,136 road repaving contract for this summer to Shelley and Sands of Twinsburg.
The cost of the road paving plans were driven up by higher cost of asphalt, David Pugh, road superintendent and office manager, told trustees at their meeting Tuesday night, adding the township usually spends between $80,000 and $100,000 a year on repaving.
Roads to be paved are from the end of Trumbull Avenue to Sixth Street; Ninth Street, from McDonald Avenue to Trumbull; Eighth Street, from McDonald to Trumbull; Seventh Street, from McDonald to Trumbull; Warren Avenue, from Sixth Street to Fifth Avenue; Marshall Road, from McDonald to Wildwood; Warner Avenue, from Niles-Carver Road to Karen Drive; Pittsburgh Avenue, from Ninth Street to the end; Warren, from Ninth to the end; and Ohltown Road, from Four Mile Run Road to state Route 46.
Trustees did not say when the paving will begin.
Trustees also approved a new health insurance plan for one year with Anthem Blue Cross-Blue Shield, which will include higher deductibles in the self-pay plan, but will save the township money with a lower premium than last year.
The trustees’ plan is to place an estimated $40,000 in savings to offset reimbursements of a higher deductible and prescription payments by the township’s 20 insured participants.
Health-care options
John Ruberto, president and insurance broker of Association Group Agency in Niles, presented trustees with several options for health care.
Trustees explained that employees are reimbursed the deductible in their current plan and will be in the new plan, which has a $2,000 maximum to be met per single individual before there is no more co-payment for prescriptions and general services, aside from the usual $15 co-pay for a visit to the family doctor.
Trustees plan to encourage employees to use $4 generic drugs whenever possible.
The previous yearly premium was $38,500, and a 4 percent increase was expected, but a switch in trustees’ choice of plan will make the premium cost $22,526.