What is the town doing about health care costs?
The Town Manager and the unions are negotiating changes to the town’s health care. The teachers union has already proposed a contract that saves the town money on health care costs by agreeing to pay a greater share of the premium. In addition, the state legislature is currently considering reforms to give towns more control over their health care offerings. Arlington’s leaders are so confident that health care costs will be brought down that the three-year plan assumes that health care costs will be reduced next year by $1 million and the following year by an additional $1 million.
