City Council Meeting Tuesday 2025 09 23

The City Council meeting for the City of Eau Claire, held Tuesday, September 23, 2025 (as identified in the title and transcript), approved employee benefit procurements. The council voted 7–0 to award the health insurance contract, Procurement No. 2025-41, to Medica after Group Health proposed a 24% premium increase and higher deductibles. Staff estimated the change would increase the city’s roughly $14 million benefits budget by about 10%. The council also approved a separate contract with local clinic Solidaris and an ancillary-benefits award, Procurement No. 2025-45, naming Delta Dental for dental coverage and Mutual of Omaha for other offerings, including new voluntary critical illness, accident, and hospital-indemnity benefits. The transcript identifies unanimous approval of the Solidaris item; the recorded vote result for the ancillary-benefits item is unclear.

The council amended and approved the 2025 fee schedule to set the proposed park impact fee at 25% of the level in the 2025 assessment; the fee schedule passed 7–0. Discussion noted that impact-fee revenue would support park capital needs and could offset related debt service, while members raised concerns about housing costs and the city’s capacity to maintain additional park infrastructure. Other actions included approvals of several property rezonings; no additional procurement awards were identified.