SMETHPORT — The McKean County Commissioners on Tuesday accepted the agreement between the county and Service Employees International Union Local #668, which represents 46 employees of Children and Youth Services and the courthouse.

The four-year contract, which covers 2020-23, carries wage increases of 2.4 percent in each of the first two years, 2.5 percent the third year and 2.6 percent in the final year.

One of the differences in the new pact moves the posting of union openings to seven days from the previous five.

A second change is from the $250/$500 Preferred Provider Organization insurance plan to a Qualified High Deductable health care plan with $1,500/$3,000 deductables and health savings account contributions of $750/$1,500 per year. Equal payments will be made in January and July.

In other matters, Commissioners Cliff Lane and Carol Duffy — Commissioner Tom Kreiner was away — approved the reallocation of unexpended funds and to request a grant extension on a Pennsylvania Commission on Crime and Delinquency grant to Dec. 31, 2020, as a project modification request for the McKean County Children’s Advocacy Center, which serves child victims of abuse and their families with collaborative services.

Project modification requests include revised budgets and detailed justifications for the revisions.

Commissioners also OKd a Department of Human Services purchase of service agreement with Mid-Atlantic Youth Services, Emlenton, as a provided-for youth residential treatment.

Following an executive session that was called to discuss a personnel matter and lasted fewer than ten minutes, commissioners returned to the public agenda and tabled any action on a grievance from a union that represents county employees.

Commissioners will meet again at 10 a.m. on Dec. 30.