Brentwood Aldermen Vote to End Health Care Insurance Again
The city attorney convinced them their July 16 vote wasn't good enough.
The Brentwood Board of Aldermen came to the Aug. 20 meeting with a revised agenda. An item to end health care benefits for elected officials by ordinance was on the table. The board voted in the July 16 meeting to end the health care benefit, but it was not an ordinance. Alderwoman Maureen Saunders immediately moved to remove the item and send it back to the ways and means committee. Alderwoman Cindy Manestar seconded it. Saunders said Alderman Tom Kramer, at the Aug. 7 ways and means committee meeting, brought forward the idea of ending the benefit by ordinance, instead of letting it end as a result of the July 16 vote. Kramer said he had been contacted by more than one attorney after the July 16 vote to end the benefit, and he contacted …
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Bill McKenzie
12:30 pm on Wednesday, August 22, 2012
Both sides have a point. The aldermen deserve a chance to clarify a gray area by ordinance. But how can we end something by ordinance that was never authorized by ordinance? The solution is in the language of the proposed ordinance. Instead of "ending" by ordinance something that was never authorized by ordinance why not simply vote up or down on whether or not the City of Brentwood shall provide… more ›