Take the time to learn and make wise decisions and you should benefit from the time that you put into your retirement planning. Your union retirement committee will continue to provide learning opportunities for you. This is a dollar amount contribution for health and welfare benefits. This is the ninth year that classified employees have received the same amount of fringe money to provide for their health and welfare needs. Medical, dental, and vision insurance premiums have consistently risen over the past nine years.
Many employees have difficulty affording the constant increases.
Over the past couple of years there has been much discussion about the fringe package. Some trustees have expressed an opinion that the amount is too high and should be reduced. There have been other suggestions that the fringe should not be distributed equally but based on the size of a person's family and their associated insurance needs. Many ideas are out there but none deal with the real issue. The fringe dollars are due for an equal increase to meet the needs of all of the classified employees.