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County staff flag Medicaid, SNAP and other state/federal changes that could affect local services
Summary
Pitkin County management analyst Levi Borscht and human services staff reviewed state legislative outcomes, pending items at the governor's desk and federal proposals that could reduce funding for Medicaid and other programs. Staff projected operational impacts and urged monitoring of bills and federal proposals.
Pitkin County management analyst Levi Borscht briefed the Board of County Commissioners on May 27 about the end of the 2025 Colorado legislative session and related federal proposals, highlighting several items that county staff said could affect human services operations and local budgets.
Borscht noted that the state budget package was signed by the governor and that several bills of interest to the county either passed or died in the session. He said some bills that had been sent to the governor had not yet been signed as of the briefing, including a measure about insurers’ use of risk models in property insurance and a regional transportation authority sales-and-use tax exemption that is awaiting gubernatorial action.
Nut graf: County staff focused on policy changes that could affect local human services operations: a recently signed…
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