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Pennington County dissolves health-care trust board, moves benefit decisions to HR and commissioners
Summary
After months of debate, commissioners voted to terminate the county’s health-care trust board, transfer plan-management duties to Human Resources with final plan and funding approval by the Board of Commissioners, and rename the trust fund to self-insurance fund.
Pennington County commissioners voted Sept. 16 to dissolve the county employee health-care trust board and to transfer management of the county health plan to the Human Resources director with the final authority to set plan design and funding residing with the full Board of Commissioners. The board also directed the county auditor to rename the existing 603 health-care trust fund to the “self-insurance fund” and to use the funds solely for employer health-care plan purposes. Commissioners said the change is intended to centralize oversight, improve transparency and bring plan-design decisions and budget impacts to the elected body that approves county spending. The action followed months of…
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