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Jefferson County budget session weighs funding for new ambulance program as state levy limits loom
Summary
County board discussed moving ambulance patient and transport revenues into a dedicated ambulance fund, using a 7% wage assumption in next year’s budgets and shifting levy burden between general supplemental and rural basic to cover a projected multi-year shortfall once state levy caps take effect.
The Jefferson County board spent its budget session debating how to fund a new county-operated ambulance program and how to absorb future state-imposed levy limits.
Speaker 2, presenting updated general-basic figures, recommended recording patient reimbursements and hospital transport revenues directly in a dedicated ambulance fund rather than the general fund so the new program starts with a healthier balance. "We're projecting revenues of 1,502,159 and expenditures of 1,563,269," Speaker 2 told the board, adding the county should "limit the expenditures to the money that can be generated in that fund." That recommendation followed an explanation that moving $175,000 of ambulance patient revenues into the ambulance fund would better position the program and avoid draining the general basic fund.
Why it matters: board members said the county must plan now because…
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