Council OKs employee insurance brokerage contract in last minute agenda item

Sidney’s City Council unanimously voted to accept a contract with Holmes Murphy of Omaha for employee insurance brokerage during Tuesday’s regular meeting as administration seeks to improve benefits for its staff going into the next fiscal year.

“These are the people who will bring us proposals from various insurance companies,” City Manager Ed Sadler said. “The whole point is for them to bring us something better, we hope, than what we currently have.”

The City of Sidney’s employee insurance is currently partially self-insured, and large claims in years past have led to high deductibles that...