Petition Filed to Limit City Officials' Health Insurance

North Canton resident Chuck Osborne filed a petition Thursday that aims to limit health insurance benefits for certain city officials and their family members.

The initiative seeks to place proposed legislation on the ballot for the November 6, 2012, General Election that will allow voters to decide whether to end city-paid health insurance benefits to part-time elected officials who already have health insurance benefits with their full-time employer.

He delivered the petition to Thursday. On the petition were 1,108  signatures from North Canton voters. A total of 744 signatures are needed to qualify for the ballot.

Osborne included this in information he released to the media Thursday: The loss of North Canton’s largest employer (The Hoover Company in 2008), has left the city struggling financially and with modest changes to health care benefits for part-time elected officials. Substantial savings can be realized and the costs of city government reduced for North Canton taxpayers.

You can find more information about the petition in .