Nesquehoning is taking a hard look at changing its employees health coverage.

On Wednesday, borough council voted to send a letter to Benecon Health Insurance Cooperative, the town's current health insurance provider, notifying them of the borough's intent to possibly terminate the contract at the end of the year.The current agreement between Nesquehoning and Benecon requires council to notify the company by June 30 if they with to terminate a contract at the end of the year or risk thousands of dollars extra to break the contract at a later time.Council President David Hawk stressed that this action is not ending coverage for borough employees at this time, but will allow the borough to move forward with finding other health insurance coverage for 2017."We are currently looking at alternate options," he said. "We may or may not terminate it but we want the option available to terminate so we had to notify them by June 30."Councilwoman Rosemary Porembo, chairwoman of the personnel and safety committee, said that all employees have been notified that there is no change in their coverage at this time.Borough council has been toying with the idea of changing health insurance coverage since last November when councilman Frank Jacobs outlined the 2016 proposed budget.At the time, he explained that a significant amount of the 0.5-mill tax increase would be used to cover the rising health care coverage for employees, which is out of the borough's control.This year, the borough is paying $2,020 a month for an employee on a family plan and approximately $1,800 per month for individual plans. There are nine employees on family plans and two on individual plans.During that discussion, the borough wanted to look into changing providers if they can see a savings on the plans, but because the contract terms require six-month notice, the borough would have had to pay nearly $40,000 to break the contract.Other business• Mayor Sam Kitchko said that in April, the police received $2,441.56; issued 73 citations; and responded to 549 incidents. In May, the department received $2,832.43; issued 22 citations; responded to 404 incidents and drove while on patrol for both months a combined 8,439 miles.• Council voted to approve Bio-Haz Solutions request for an extension of its land development plan to Sept. 30. Councilman Don DeMarco cast the sole "no" vote.• Council accepted the resignation of Regina Kennedy, deputy code enforcement officer, who was filling in while officer Rob Blisard, code enforcement officer, was out on medical leave.• Council voted to send a counter-offer to one resident on Park Avenue for the trees that were cut without authorization and will have employees begin pricing the cost of replacing the cut trees on two properties on the avenue.