Nashville City Council Members Vote to Receive Paid Health Insurance for Life

     Here's how Nashville City Council members voted on Councilman Phil Clairborne's bill to overhaul the structure of Metro Council's comprehensive health care plan. The bill failed, giving current and former Council members health care coverage for life. Do you know any other part-time workers who receive these benefits? Council members' jobs are classified as part time. Adjunct professors at area colleges and universities are limited to a certain number of hours to exclude them from health care coverage. Nashville is the only city to offer these benefits.

HOW THEY VOTED

     Here’s how council members voted on Councilman Phil Claiborne’s bill to overhaul the structure of Metro Council’s comprehensive health care plan:

Aye (15): Megan Barry, Ronnie Steine, Tim Garrett, Charlie Tygard, Brady Banks, Peter Westerholm, Bill Pridemore, Josh Stites, Bruce Stanley, Phil Claiborne, Burkley Allen, Jason Holleman, Sean McGuire, Carter Todd, Bo Mitchell

No (18): Jerry Maynard, Lonnell Matthews Jr., Frank Harrison, Walter Hunt, Scott Davis, Anthony Davis, Doug Pardue, Larry Hagar, Tony Tenpenny, Erica Gilmore, Buddy Baker, Sheri Weiner, Emily Evans, Duane Dominy, Karen Johnson, Jason Potts, Fabian Bedne, Jacobia Dowell

(Note: Fabian Bedne is running unopposed in the next election.) 








Abstain (4): Karen Bennett, Sandra Moore, Chris Harmon, Davette Blalock

Absent (3): Steve Glover, Edith Langster, Robert Duvall