City officials said the health insurance package that Costello prepared for the upcoming fiscal year would cost $3.52 million, while Northern Insurance’s package was priced at $3.29 million. The package will cover 269 city employees.<\/p>\n
Frank Costello, of Costello Insurance, said the city sent him a letter Jan. 1, letting him know that his contract was rescinded.<\/p>\n
“They are trying to clean house,” he said.<\/p>\n
Frank Perez, Chicago Heights’ mayoral executive administrator, said the decision came down to the bottom line.<\/p>\n
“In the long term, we’ll be saving money,” he said.<\/p>\n
Distributed via Chicago Press Release Services<\/a><\/p>\n Chicago Heights aldermen on Tuesday night agreed to a new medical insurance plan for city employees that will save the city more than $200,000 during the 2010-11 fiscal year. Ald. Willie White (1st), Sonia Perez (2nd), Wanda Rogers (3rd) and Mayor Alex Lopez voted for the plan put together by Northern Insurance Agency. Ald. Joe […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-330534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=330534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330534\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=330534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=330534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=330534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/img><\/a>
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