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Kingston Select Board, budget committee express opposition to SB 297 risk-pool changes
Summary
After public testimony and research, the Select Board unanimously approved a letter opposing SB 297, which would change supervision and assessment rules for municipal pooled risk programs; the Budget Committee signaled it will send a complementary letter focused on midyear budget impacts.
The Kingston Select Board voted unanimously to send a letter opposing SB 297, legislation that would change supervision and assessment rules for municipal pooled risk programs, after public comment and a draft letter presented by resident Pam Brown.
Brown, who has followed legislative hearings on the bill, warned the board that the bill — as drafted and discussed at committee work sessions — could require municipalities to absorb assessments if a pooled risk program became insolvent. “Healthcare is currently Kingston's single most expensive budget item,” Brown said in public comment, and she told the board she had reviewed hearing…
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