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Douglas County Board of Health approves phased increases to environmental health fees
Summary
Board members approved a plan to raise several environmental health fees gradually over the next three years to better capture personnel costs and offset reduced state funding.
The Douglas County Board of Health on Sept. 11 approved an update to the departmentenvironmental health fee schedule, endorsing a ramped increase intended to recover staffing costs that were not included in the department's 2022 fee calculations.
Skyler Secard, assistant director of environmental health, told the board the department wants to align local fees with state adjustments and factor in fringe benefits that had been omitted when the schedule was set three years…
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