By: Health Insurance
Submitted: 2010-01-02 10:29:20 | Word Count: 766
The majority of Butler Township non-union employees will work a reduced week in 2010 and most received a 4-percent raise.
All eight employee contracts that go into effect Friday and expire Dec. 31, 2010, were approved at the supervisors' Dec. 23 meeting.
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The reduced work week, from the normal 40-hour work week, varies for each employee and reflects budget cuts the supervisors made while drafting the 2010 budget. Employees also worked reduced hours in 2009.
In the contracts, all employees are entitled to health care and holiday time that is comparable to township union contracts. If employees decline insurance coverage, they are eligible for a 25-percent reimbursement of the health care package cost at the end of the year.
The employees fall into the Pennsylvania Act 205 pension, and the township and the employee make a 6-percent salary contribution, aside from police Chief Charles Altmiller, who is covered under a police pension plan, and Zoning and Code Officer Larry Sims, who will not work enough hours in 2010 to be eligible for pension. Each employee has the option to sign onto a $35,000 life insurance policy that drops to $10,000 after retirement. Altmiller has the option to sign onto a $50,000 life insurance policy that drops to $10,000 after retirement.
The amount of personal, vacation and sick days vary from employee to employee.
Highlights from each contract are:
n Township Manager Steve Hahn, $23.75 per hour in a 38.5-hour work week. He has 1¼ sick days each month and five personal days. He has four weeks and two days vacation until his 10th year of employment when he will receive five weeks. Hahn has been employed with the township for about five years, Township Supervisor Chairman Ransom Young said.
n Road foreman Ransom Young's salary will be set by the township auditors who formulate his increase after an annual review. The auditors are scheduled to set that rate at their Jan. 5 reorganization meeting, scheduled for 6 p.m. at the township building. The auditors will also set the pay rate for township supervisors, compensation for the secretary/treasurer and assistant secretary/treasurer, road master, mileage, bonds and supervisors' health and medical insurance eligibility, at the meeting.
Young is allotted one sick day each month and four personal days. Young, who has worked as road foreman since 1996, has six weeks of vacation.
n Police Chief Charles Altmiller, $27.25 per hour in a 38.5-work week. He has one sick day per month, 20 vacation days and five personal days. Young said Altmiller has been employed at least 25 years.
n Waste Water Plant Supervisor William DeNunzio, $29.12 per hour in a 40-hour work week. He has four personal days and one sick day per month. Three weeks vacation in the first year, four weeks after the third year and five weeks after his 10th year. DeNunzio was hired at the beginning of 2008.
n Zoning and Code Officer Larry Sims, $18.50 per hour during a 25-hour work week. His health insurance is different from other township employees. Sims and his dependents are allowed up to $7,000 in health insurance that is 25-percent reimbursable if refused. If he works 35 hours a week or more, his 6-percent retirement benefit package will be instituted. Sims is allowed 1¼ sick days each month, two weeks vacation and five personal days. Sims has worked as zoning and code officer since 2003.
n Police Secretary Fran Petrovich, $16.25 per hour for a 38.5-hour work week. She has 1¼ sick days a month, four weeks vacation and six personal days. Petrovich worked for the department for over 25 years, Young said.
n Township clerk Jane Reakes, $14.02 per hour in a 35-hour work week. She has 1¼ sick days a month, two weeks vacation and four personal days. Reakes has worked for Butler for about five years, Young said.
n Accounts Manager Erin Braddock, $17.20 per hour at 38.5 hours a week. She has 1¼ sick days per month and three weeks and three days vacation time and five personal days. Braddock has worked for Butler close to 10 years, Young said.
