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Seward County budget talks focus on jump in employee benefits, possible mill levy rise
Summary
Commissioners reviewed department budgets and heard staff warn that rapid growth in employee health-care costs and dwindling cash carryovers could force a property tax increase unless expenditures or reserves change.
Seward County commissioners spent a multi‑hour session reviewing department requests and listening to staff warn that rising employee‑benefit costs and lower cash carryovers are squeezing the county's budget.
County finance staff presented the numbers: recent years' actual claims fell well below the insurer's worst‑case figure, but that worst‑case projection is large and would push the county's employee‑benefit line far higher than recent actuals. Staff told commissioners Blue Cross Blue Shield's worst‑case claim estimate that staff reviewed was about $6,566,393, while 2024 actual claims were roughly $3,000,426 and staff's working projection for 2025 was about…
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