In the Protecting Germantown Employees Comes at a High Cost for Taxpayers post dated July 16, I
discussed the insurance policies for upper level Germantown employees and
elected officials that have cost the city 1.5 million dollars in premiums to
date, with future obligations that are certain to be costly. These are the
policies that made "little or no sense" according to the attorney
hired by the city. Rocky Janda confessed
to the Commercial Appeal that it took him three or four months to even
understand them.
A bit of the history of these expensive and confusing
policies is revealed by the open records requests. As can be seen in this document, these Equitable policies were quietly and quickly passed after a vote for playground
equipment, in the same resolution as the renewal of the Unum disability policies,
making it look as though these complex and costly life insurance policies were
simply renewals. This is the opposite of sunshine, of course. Take a look for
yourself:
There was no opportunity for these policies to be scrutinized by the public. Surely the citizens of Germantown deserved more transparency than this from their officials.
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