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The um now we'll move to personnel updates.

Sure.

That's me again.

So each meeting, I just give you an update on the rates above entry.

So this um actually we um our last meeting was in December.

So since then we've had three um hirings at a rate above entry.

Um, one was a senior multimeter multimedia coordinator.

Um, we also had a procurement tech one and a community services clerk receptionist.

So those were our um employees that were hired above entry, and again, we're working really closely with our departments and our hiring managers on those decisions.

Um, also looking at our internal equity and making sure that you know uh we're making the right choices for the skill set of the employee, but also considering our internal um app our internal employees as well.

Um, but that continues to go really well for us.

I did provide you with um a few documents.

Um, the first thing I'm going to talk about in terms of personal activities is our wellness program.

So I did provide to you our current 2026 wellness program.

Um, you can see that uh we've made a change this year, and um this year's wellness program places a strong emphasis on preventative care, specifically encouraging our employees to complete an annual visit with their primary care physician.

So you can see um this document at the top, it gives the overview of the wellness program, and at the very top you can see that um employees have to earn their preferred health insurance rate by completing their primary care physician visit.

This year we're moving that preferred health insurance rate to $40 a month.

So if they do not see their primary care physician in the year, then they will see a $40 increase a month on their health insurance.

Regular primary care visits help identify health risk earlier, manage chronic conditions, and reduce avoidable emergency and high cost care.

Preventative care leads to better health outcomes and more predictable health care costs, which directly impact our ability to offer competitive benefits.

So we're trying to make sure our employees understand how their own individual health ties to our benefits and our claims.

Managing health care claims to support um a more stable renewal to promote work promote more stable um insurance renewals.

We're going through our insurance renewal process right now.

We should have some information on that very soon.

So again, we're really having our employees focus on their personal health by going to their primary care physician trying to do that preventative care so that um things do not result in bigger issue, bigger issues.

Um, and then we continue to offer the wellness day off.

Um, you can see the check boxes there of the activities that the employees um need to do to earn their wellness day off.

So we still are offering our biometric screenings twice a year.

We do have our biometric screenings usually at the beginning of the year.

And then we have a makeup session, and then we also have flu shots offered in the fall.

They also have to complete a health assessment and they have to log for wellness activities.

So this is our 2026 wellness program.

We continue to work closely with Oshner on that program.

Our Oshner coordinator is Dana Frank, and she works closely with our employees here.

So any questions about our wellness program.

And Dana Frank has to keep up with all of them.

Yes.

Did we put more work on you?

No, not at all.

So our this is all tracked through a blue cross portal, a blue cross wellness portal.

So Dana Frank is responsible to log some activities like the biometric screenings.

That's all that goes through a system.

And she helps with that tracking, and then some of the activities the employees actually record on their own.

I'd just like to say I'm glad to see me moving in this direction.

My wife and my daughter both work in a school system in a school board setup that way, and they have a lot of this stuff in it.

And we hear more and more stories of people finding out something's wrong with them that didn't know before.