The Mayor and the Aldermen are accountable to the hard-working taxpayers of Nashua. The
City’s Administrative Services team and I have tackled rising healthcare costs and have
developed a solution. However, the solution — in the form of the City’s new health care plan —
needs to apply to all City employees and to be included in all collective bargaining agreements
— no exceptions, no excuses.
R-20-088 does not include the firefighters in the same plan as the other City employees. Instead,
the vetoed provisions pay the firefighters approximately $129,000 in additional wages every
year, forever, for marginal, and possibly only temporary, increases in the use of the more
affordable option that is already available to all City employees — the so-called “high deductible
plan.” This 1% increase in wages over wo years would be on top of the 14.5% raise given in the
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