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Bonner County officials clarify ambulance-district finances, payroll and pension paperwork
Summary
County clerk and auditor answered commissioners' questions about the Bonner County Ambulance District's long-running relationship with the county, disputed totals the county provided to the district, and described steps taken after payroll/W-2 and PERSI filing problems were discovered.
Bonner County officials spent an extended portion of their Feb. 24 meeting clarifying the county's financial relationship with the Bonner County Ambulance District and explaining payroll and pension paperwork problems the clerk's office has been working to correct.
The clerk told commissioners the county has provided roughly $5.8 million to the ambulance district since 2020 and that the district has returned about $3.2 million; the clerk read a figure the record described as leaving a deficit but several speakers acknowledged inconsistent arithmetic and phrasing in the discussion. The clerk characterized the $5.8 million figure as "what the county contributed to the taxing district since 2020," and later read the numbers as $5,847,143…
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