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Finance director: new state health-plan surcharge forces $589,603 draw from fund balance; commissioners approve related budget amendments
Summary
Finance Director Heather Woody told the board a newly announced 2.4% state health-plan surcharge, applied retroactively to July 1, will cost the county and require budget amendments; commissioners approved a package of amendments, requisitions and personnel moves, and discussed fund-balance uncertainty.
Finance Director Heather Woody presented multiple budget amendments, project ordinances, requisitions and personnel adjustments and told commissioners the state health-plan employer surcharge of 2.4 percent will be applied retroactively to July 1, 2025. Woody said the county must budget the employer charge this fiscal year and that Fund 10 (the county's general operating fund) will require an appropriation of $589,603 to cover the surcharge based on current budgeted salaries.
Woody said the state surcharge also increased the county's per-employee insurance cost by about $67.42 per month for employees using the plan but that county staff were still in open enrollment and some employees might elect other…
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