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Camden County adopts ordinance authorizing hospital-services assessment to fund care for low-income residents
Summary
The Camden County Board of Commissioners adopted an ordinance authorizing an assessment on certain services furnished by hospitals in the county to increase funding for services to low-income residents; the public hearing received no speakers and the ordinance was approved by roll call.
Camden County commissioners voted to adopt an ordinance authorizing an assessment on certain services furnished by hospitals within the county to increase funding to support services for low-income residents.
The board opened a public hearing on the measure and invited members of the public to comment; no members of the public spoke during the hearing and the chair closed the hearing. The clerk then called the roll and commissioners present recorded affirmative responses, and the ordinance was adopted.
The ordinance text, read into the record by county staff, described the assessment as intended to generate new fiscal resources to support necessary services by hospitals to low-income citizens. Funding details and the assessment mechanism were read as part of the ordinance introduction; the county did not receive public objections during the hearing.
The adoption followed standard procedure: the hearing, a call for public comment, closure of the hearing, and roll-call adoption. The board indicated that additional public hearings on other county business would occur later in the meeting.
The ordinance becomes an item for county implementation steps; the clerk recorded the roll-call approval and the board moved on to other agenda items.
