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Riverside Board of Education members unanimously approved a motion during their regular rescheduled Wednesday evening meeting for the school district to withdraw from the Logan County School Employee Consortium, effective at the end of 2017.
The district, along with Benjamin Logan, Indian Lake and Ohio Hi-Point Career Center, first formed the consortium by joining together at the beginning of 2014 for a wellness incentive-based, self-funded insurance model, as previously reported in the Examiner.
Superintendent Scott Mann said the reason for withdrawing from the county group relates to the consortium’s spousal carve-out that is now in place. He said this issue has had a profound effect on his staff, and reported that Riverside will be joining a new health insurance plan through the Southwest Ohio Educational Purchasing Council beginning Jan. 1, which does not have the spousal carve-out at this time.
“We had a great collaboration with the consortium and there are no hard feelings, but this was just something we needed to do for our employees,” he said.
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