Putnam County may quickly supply a extra substantial life insurance coverage coverage for regulation enforcement and emergency personnel.
"With all of the deaths of regulation enforcement, paramedics and emergency personnel we now have been seeing within the information these days, it made me take a tough have a look at what we do for ours in case of a line of obligation demise," stated County Mayor Randy Porter.
In simply the previous 4 months in Tennessee, two cops and one paramedic have been killed in job-related incidents. A Sullivan County deputy was shot whereas doing a welfare test at a house in Blountville, a Chattanooga police officer was hit by a automobile throughout a visitors cease, and a west Tennessee paramedic died in Nashville when the ambulance he was in hydroplaned and struck a wall.
"The devastation a demise like this could trigger to the worker's household can be unbelievable," Porter stated.
He stated the county presently gives a $15,000 life insurance coverage coverage on every county worker, however stated he want to enhance that.
"I'm proposing we add a $250,000 life coverage to all our full-time sheriff, EMS, fireplace and EMA division personnel," he stated. "The price to do that is $19,090 per 12 months to cowl these 270 staff, which I feel may be very cheap for what it might present for an worker's household."
He stated the annual value would come from the county's self-insurance fund.
The proposal will likely be mentioned by the Fiscal Assessment Committee when it meets Monday.
The committee will even speak about the potential for having the county self-fund its medical insurance coverage for workers.
"With the continuous enhance in medical insurance coverage prices, I've been wanting on the county going again to being self-funded on our medical insurance coverage the best way we're on all our different county insurance coverage," Porter stated. "The financial savings could possibly be giant."
Porter stated he would give commissioners an outline of the choices at this month's assembly and convey the proposal again for a vote subsequent month, as soon as he has "closing numbers."
The committee conferences start at 5:30 p.m. Monday on the county courthouse.
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