LIVERMORE — Selectpersons have accredited providing eligible city staff partial fee of medical health insurance for his or her partner and youngsters, a profit meant to assist hold and entice employees.
The city pays 100% of staff’ medical health insurance premiums however has by no means coated their households. On Tuesday, the board accredited paying 35% of the price of household protection.
The price can be about $11,000 per individual, per yr, Chairman Mark Chretien stated.
Administrative Assistant Aaron Miller will verify whether or not a particular city assembly is required to acceptable American Rescue Plan Act funds from the city’s allotment to cowl the primary yr of expanded medical health insurance.
Concerning one emptiness, Chretien stated, “We’re having a tough time discovering skilled folks for the freeway division.”
“A few folks would have utilized however with out medical health insurance they only could not do it,” Selectperson Scott Richmond stated.
“For those who do not supply (household medical health insurance), in the event you get any individual with out expertise (plowing snow), you’ll put the cash into the truck,” Chretien stated. “You’ll pay a technique or one other.”
Requested about hiring a contractor to plow, Richmond stated three cities did that after which established their very own departments due to unreliable service.
“You’re already established,” Miller stated. You will not get chilly patching, ditching or slicing woods with contracting, he added.
“Now we have 41 miles of street ourselves, 48 with Crash Street and Route 108,” Chretien stated. “Now we have bought to do one thing to be aggressive.”
Selectpersons agreed to promote for the freeway division place utilizing a variety of $18 to $21 per hour, based mostly on expertise. The brand new medical health insurance choice would even be included.
Additionally on the assembly, the board set the property tax price at $16 per $1,000 of assessed valuation, the identical as final yr.
Referring to a dialog with assessing agent Paul Binette of John E. O’Donnell & Associates of New Gloucester, Miller stated, “In speaking with Paul, your spending is down, revenue-sharing is up. You will have seen a rise in private property so it seems promising.”
Selectperson Scott Richmond moved to maintain the speed at $16. The quantity accessible for tax abatements can be $153,252.78.
Final yr, $50,000 was taken from the undesignated fund steadiness to reduce the rise in taxes, Richmond stated, noting there are not any plans to take cash from the account this yr.
Unspent cash is returned to the undesignated fund steadiness.
In different enterprise, members of the Brettuns Pond Affiliation are eager about serving to with seashore cleanup and would really like a shed there for storing provides. Central Maine Energy is anticipated to put in a lightweight, and energy would enable higher digital camera protection of the world. A duplicate of Turner’s seashore ordinance was shared as a doable template for Livermore.
Audrey Lovering of Lovering and Associates attended the assembly to debate the financial growth proposal she submitted. It highlights the Route 4/Route 108 hall. She stated there’s all the time room for a few small eating places, extra medical and extra know-how services.
“It is a good looking place to telecommute,” she stated. “Lots of business is seeking to transfer to Maine.” Livermore might be the primary cease for tourism with companies similar to sports activities, fishing, biking, she famous.
Understanding what folks need their city to be is a crucial first step, selectpersons agreed.
Creating a technique for the enterprise hall is a multiphase, multistep course of. Time to finish it is dependent upon what the city has for information and background info, nevertheless it may entail 140 hours or extra. The corporate costs $85 per hour.
Selectperson Brett Deyling will create a survey to ship with tax payments. Replies will be accomplished on-line, by means of Survey Monkey or despatched to the City Workplace.
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