LIVERMORE FALLS – Selectmen unanimously approved six contracts for three departments Monday, which give employees annual raises but also has them contributing to their health insurance.
Two contracts, a short-term contract for six months and a three-year contract, were approved for each of the police, emergency dispatch and highway departments.
Employees in those departments have been working under contracts that expired in 2004.
The six-month contract will give workers a 2 percent raise for Jan. 1 through June 30, Selectman Bill Demaray said Monday night.
There is no retroactive money, he said, but there is a $500 signing bonus.
Workers will also contribute 5 percent to their total health insurance package, with the town paying 95 percent of the cost of the Maine Municipal Association’s health plan, Demaray said. If an employee chooses to stay with a more expensive plan now in place, the employee will have to pay the difference, he added.
Currently, the town picks up all of the cost of covered employees’ health insurance with employees contributing toward the coverage for their dependents.
The three-year contracts will begin July 1, 2006, and run until June 30, 2009. Those give employees 3 percent wage increases the first year and 4 percent raises the following two years, Demaray said.
Health-insurance contributions will remain the same as in the short-term contract, he said.
In other business Monday, selectmen set a special town meeting for 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 3, at the Town Office for voters to consider $6,893 needed to match $130,973 in federal money for a grant awarded to the Fire Department.
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