Surely Mr. York was mis-quoted?

We may need to get our hands on the actual resolution for this medical insurance coverage that was passed on Tuesday. I was under the impression from the city attorney Tim Underwood that this resolution would go into effect immediately.

"According to City Administrator Ken York, the board's resolution
agreed to look at the cost of providing health insurance as of July 1, but Alderman Eliot Mitchell said the city attorney advised the resolution becomes effective upon passage."

Surely Mr. York is not under the impression that this passage has no bearing until July? If that were the case there would have been no problem with deferring this issue until a later time. I seem to remember quite an argument in regard to deferring this? Hmmm, maybe my memory is just failing me.

I also seem to specifically remember no opposition whatsoever to the GBT Realty proposal at the work session on Feb. 13th from ANY aldermen. In fact, now that I think about it, I also distinctly remember GBT explicitly asking that the 2 re-zones be grouped together and Ken York stated that there would be no problem with doing that because it had always been done that way in the past. That sure was not the story when Mr. Duda was reprimanded for even mentioning things that were said at the work session in regard to the separation of the ordinances.

Wow, my memory is going downhill really quickly!

Here is the article in full from the Williamson Herald...

City employees get lifetime medical benefits

In a 6-3 vote, Wednesday night the Spring Hill Board of Mayor and Aldermen passed a resolution to give all vested city employees and their families health and dental benefits for life.

According to City Administrator Ken York, the board's resolution agreed to look at the cost of providing health insurance as of July 1, but Alderman Eliot Mitchell said the city attorney advised the resolution becomes effective upon passage.

"I support the concept of providing retirees with families medical coverage prior to age 65 and supplemental Medicare coverage after 65," said Mitchell. "But this resolution in its form has too many problems for me to support. To offer lifetime Coverage for retirees is radical."

According to the resolution, the qualifying requirements at the time of retirement state an employee must be at least 65 years of age and have at least five years vested in the city retirement system or be at least 55 years of age and have at least 25 years of creditable employment with the city.

According to a prospectus provided by York, there was no additional cost to taxpayers, but that was based on no inflation and no growth.

"If it proves to be too expensive, it simply won't be done," said York.

Spring Hill Mayor Danny Leverette would not comment, saying he would not speak about city business during his work day. at the Post Office.