Ways to lower town employee health insurance costs being explored

SOUTHWICK — Select Board Chair Diane Gale didn’t rule out having the board call a Special Town Meeting to have residents weigh in on whether the town should pay more toward the town employee health insurance costs than the current split, which is 50/50, during the board’s meeting Monday night.

“I don’t believe we said no to a Special Town Meeting. We need time to put that package together to make a decent presentation,” Gale said after the Fire Department’s Fire Prevention Officer Brian Schneider, who is speaking for all the town’s employees, again addressed the board about health insurance costs.