When Brian Wessling retired in 2018 after more than 30 years in the Olathe Police Department, he made his retirement plans around the city’s robust benefits package.
Now, the benefits — and the city’s contributions to them — that he had planned his life around are changing.
“Olathe’s salaries when we were employed were never the highest, and we didn’t expect that because our benefits were better than Lenexa or Overland Park,” Wessling said about himself and fellow public safety retirees…