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Bourbon County commissioners trim budget lines, debate reserves and employee-benefit assumptions
Summary
Commissioners reviewed a draft 2026 budget and debated reserves, the employee-benefits increase to assume for insurance, and how those choices affect the mill levy and reserve balances.
Bourbon County commissioners spent a budget work session discussing draft 2026 spending levels, whether to rely on conservative revenue projections and how to preserve cash reserves while limiting changes to the county mill levy.
The discussion centered on three linked choices: the percent increase to assume for employee health insurance, whether to carry explicit reserve line items in operating funds, and how to absorb new items such as a potential takeover of 9-1-1 dispatch from the city. Commissioners and staff settled on using an 8% insurance increase in preliminary calculations…
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