Culbertson council votes to provide $359 monthly health insurance benefit for two employees

The Culbertson Town Council voted to provide a $359-per-month payroll health insurance benefit to two employees so they can receive family health insurance coverage costing $265 per month.

Council member Greg Staudinger moved to give Steve and Raedelle $359 per month as a health insurance benefit effective Feb. 1, 1995; Bernie W. Finnicum seconded. The minutes record that all council members voted in favor and the motion carried.

The minutes explain the arithmetic the council used: to net $265 per month for family coverage, a gross payroll benefit of $359 per month is required; the council noted the benefit would not change hourly or overtime pay rates, because it is a separate payroll benefit.

The minutes do not specify whether the two named recipients (Steve and Raedelle) are town employees or elected officials; both individuals appear on the meeting attendance list. Further administrative details, including whether the benefit is taxable or how it will be remitted to the insurer, were not recorded in the minutes.