The city's personnel office has switched positions on a health-insurance provider for the next three years, now recommending the city continue with Blue Cross.

Previously, city staff and an employee review committee had recommended changing to United Healthcare. On Friday, though, Human Resources Manager Virginia Jones and Health Strategies Coordinator Dee Byers sent City Manager Tom Bonfield a memo with a new opinion.

The City Council is scheduled to vote on the insurance contract during its meeting tonight.

In his State of the City speech last February, Mayor Bill Bell announced that "Durham's got it."

Now we know what "It" looks like:

City employees sported "Durham's Got It" emblem stickers on their clothing and handed stickers out to all who would accept them at Monday's city council meeting where "It" received official endorsement — "It" being a strategic plan, which city employees and council members devoted months to coming up with.

Some things our government intends to do:

• "Establish an exceptional, diverse, and engaged workforce"
• "Encourage retention and expansion of current businesses"
• "Reduce occurrence and severity of crime, fire, and hazards"
• "Increase sustainability through the wise use of limited resources"

It's a new day in Durham, all right, Bull Citizens.
 

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