Council Accepts 2022-2023 Worker’s Compensation Insurance
Community December 15, 2021
CLEVELAND, Ga.- The Cleveland City Council accepted the 2022-2023 worker’s compensation insurance presented by Tom O’Bryant at their meeting on Dec. 13.
The council also accepted an amendment to the 2020/2021 budget. Chief Pruitt and Shoemaker delivered a monthly report for the fire and police department to the council at the meeting as well.
Tom O’Bryant, the City Administrator, brought the council the 2022-2023 worker’s compensation insurance proposal. His proposal is for the council to remain with Key Risk as they offered the cheapest bid out of the three other companies that bid.
Tom O’Bryant explaining the budget amendment and worker’s compensation insurance to the council.
The bid for the new plan is $89,148. It is a 22.9% increase over the previous years, which was $72,546. The increase was due to the number of claims and the increase in payrolls that have gone into effect.
“We have this amount in our budget we looked at that, we tried to make sure we had enough money in our budget to cover each department and we do,” O’Bryant explained.
The next item that was approved by the council was resolution 2021-25 to amend the 2020-21 budget to include the higher revenues for the hotel\motel tax. The amendment is to increase the revenues to $7,500 and also increase the expenditures to the same amount. This is just to reflect the revenues that were collected over the original budgeted amount.
To view the original budget visit: https://cms6.revize.com/revize/clevelandga/Audits%20and%20budgets/2020.06.08%202020-2021%20budget.pdf.
Fire Chief Ricky Pruitt gave the council an update on the number of calls received in November. There were 99 calls in total 39 in the county and 60 in the city. Of those only four were fire calls, sixty-three were rescue calls.
Police Chief Jeff Shoemaker also gave the council an update on what the police department did in November. There were a total of 2,316 incidents with zero of those being juvenile matters. Shoemaker estimated that the police have covered about 11,000 miles.
“Thanks to the chief of the fire department for all their help, our guys and their guys along with the county sheriff’s department really hit a home run,” committed Shoemaker of the Cleveland Christmas Parade.