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Commissioners direct staff to draft budget-policy change on health-insurance budgeting; utility-tax and solid-waste options returned for more review
Summary
At a budget workshop briefing, commissioners agreed to a policy change to budget vacant full-time positions at an actuarial average employee cost rather than the maximum health-insurance tier; they also asked to bring proposed utility-tax and solid-waste-exemption changes back for further review.
Clay County commissioners on June 24 reviewed three budget items and gave staff direction to bring formal resolutions or ordinances back for board action: a proposed budget-policy revision on how vacant positions are budgeted for health insurance, a set of options to reduce solid-waste collection and disposal exemptions, and an advertised utility-tax proposal to revisit at the July 8 meeting if the board wishes to proceed.
Budget manager Reg Kanter presented the staff-recommended policy change to alter current practice of budgeting all full-time vacant positions at the…
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