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Employees of the Pella Community School District will see an increase in their health insurance rate for the first time in four years following a report and action taken at the Pella School Board meeting this week. Superintendent Greg Ebeling says a three percent increase was approved after costs for the district’s self-insurance plan rose by nearly 10 percent. Ebeling says the district was able to absorb the cost due to the general health of the district’s fund balance in their self-insurance policy, and over the course of several years, they’ve been able to keep costs down where other districts may have had challenges in more traditional health care benefits. Hear more about the latest with the Pella Community School District on today’s Let’s Talk Pella.