FC councilman explains his actions

Background and a Brian Patterson press release Background At the most recent FC Council meeting, councilman Brian Patterson accused the county government of overpaying for health insurance to the tune of $1.2 million. Subsequently, FC Auditor Karla Bauman and FC Attorney Grant Reeves did an audit for 2020 and found overpayment in the amount of …

UC commissioner forced to stop bickering between two insurance company representatives

By John Estridge Usually when insurance is discussed at governmental entity meetings, the discussion is very dry and boring. That was not the case Friday morning, September 4, at the Union County Commissioners’ meeting. Commissioner Howard Curry had to strongly tell everyone to stop as the bickering between representatives for two different insurance companies got …

UC saves an estimated $140,000 per year with new health insurance plan

By John Estridge Union County Commissioners decided to go with a new company for health insurance and apparently saved around $140,000 annually in the change. Two bids were opened at the Friday morning, August 7, meeting. One was from the current health insurance company, VanVleet Insurance of Richmond, and the other bid was from RMD …