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Council questions steep insurance and workers' comp increases and internal charge allocations
Summary
Councilors raised concerns about a large rise in the workers' compensation line and higher liability costs, discussed whether the city could allocate insurance costs by department, and asked staff to realign internal service charges so high-claim departments bear appropriate shares.
City councilors and staff discussed rising insurance costs and an increase in the workers' compensation line as departments reviewed budget pages that spread insurance across multiple funds.
Councilors flagged a large increase in the workers' compensation line for the streets department — staff noted a change of roughly 122 percent compared with the prior budget line. Staff explained part of the prior-year reduction had been funded with ARPA dollars and that the line “shot back up” to…
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