Benefits Management

• Establish stronger controls over accounting for fringe benefits
• Let full-time classified staff work 10 months without loss of health benefits during the remaining two months
• Use managed care programs and techniques to reduce expenditures for benefits
• Limit administrative perks
• Eliminate lifetime health benefits for board members
• Hire a specific person to monitor fringe benefits
• Establish controls over handling of Workers’ Compensation claims
• Have employees voluntarily take from one to 20 days off per year without pay while retaining benefits

A notable hedge of ancient yew
Conceals the house from public view;
Within the house a private room
Conceals a public man of whom
The public image, distant, cold
Conceals, they say, a heart of gold;
But what the heart of gold conceals
No one, no one at all, reveals.
-E.V. Milner, Open to Visitors