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Reclassifying 911 dispatch to ‘public safety’ raises county insurance allocations, budget presenter says
Summary
Budget staff told the Davis County Budget Committee that moving dispatch/911 staff into a public‑safety classification for 2025 increases UCIP insurance allocation rates for those positions and contributes to allocation growth in affected funds.
Budget staff explained a change to how dispatch staff are classified for insurance allocations: 911/dispatch positions that were not previously categorized as public safety have been reclassified as public safety for the 2025 budget, increasing the UCIP allocation rate charged to the departments that employ those staff.
Speaker 2 said the reclassification was a change in the 2025 numbers sent to UCIP and that, because public-safety classifications carry higher rates, the move raises allocations for dispatch and for funds carrying that payroll. "The public, the 9 1 1 staff was not classified as public safety in previous years. So for 2025, they've corrected that and brought... the dispatch, employees into a public safety position and the rates, of course, are higher," Speaker 2 said. Committee discussion focused on whether the higher allocation reflects greater risk or only classification policy.
Speaker 2 also tied this reclassification to allocation shifts shown in the pivot tables and noted the effect on departments such as tourism (which was moved between funds) and Sheriff/Corrections where public-safety allocations are significant. The presenter recommended reviewing the posted pivot tables to see line-by-line allocation impacts after staff posts the full spreadsheet.
Next steps: staff will post the pivot tables and detailed allocation worksheets so committee members can quantify the fiscal effect of the dispatch reclassification on specific funds and departmental budgets.
