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McDonald board OKs insurance-rate increases
McDONALD
The village school board approved health-insurance premium rate increases of 13 percent.
The increases were instituted by the Trumbull County Schools Insurance Benefits Consortium.
The rates are effective Jan. 1.
Rates were last raised, by 10 percent, in July.
The monthly rate schedules will change as follows: PPO-1-single, from $470.23 to $531.36 and family, $1,223.05 to $1,382.05; PPO-2-single, from $422.03 to $476.89 and family, $1,098.09 to $1,240.84; and PPO-3, from $373.84 to $422.44 and family, $973.14 to $1,099.64.
Employees pay from 8 percent to 20 percent of the premiums, and the rest is paid by the school district.
Dental and vision premiums will not change.
They are dental: single $37.05 and family $116.55; and vision: single $6.87 and family $18.92.
In other business at the board’s meeting Monday, the board accepted a donation of $1,440 worth of light bulbs for the high school gymnasium.
There are 30 to 40 lights in the gymnasium, schools treasurer Brian Stidham said.
High school principal Gary Carkido said that the old incandescent lights in the gym were 6 years old, and the new ones, installed last week, make: “A noticeable difference. It’s much brighter,” Carkido said.
He said all of the bulbs donated have been used, and the old ones will be kept as backup.
The board also accepted a donation of $500, also anonymous, for the athletic department.
The district will purchase a 1991 Ford Crown school bus from Weathersfield Local Schools at a cost of $10,000.
The district has six buses, five in running order.
Two are used regularly, one to make in-town pick-ups and another to drive students to the Trumbull Career and Technical Center.
The others are used to take students to athletic events and field trips.
Stidham said plans are to get rid of two or three buses, two in the spring or summer and another later.