Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties

Ironwood Township discusses health insurance premiums

By ZACHARY MARANO

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IRONWOOD — The Ironwood Township Board held a special meeting at the Ironwood Township Office on Monday for a workshop for the 2022 proposed budget.

Supervisor Jay Kangas said that according to the renewal form that the office received half an hour before the meeting, there will be an 11.64% increase in the rates for health insurance in 2022. Kangas said this was “quite a bit higher than I anticipated it was going to be.”

Kangas said that the health insurance rate was without the township’s Health Reimbursement Arrangement, which itself is contingen...