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Greenlee County outlines budget priorities: health-insurance costs, ambulance pre-funding and PSPRS contribution
Summary
County staff told the board the county faces rising health-insurance costs driven by specialty drugs, proposed pre-funding ambulance purchases to avoid supply delays, and recommended an additional PSPRS contribution (around $300,000) to stabilize actuarial funded status; staff also proposed shifting most SRS funds to schools pending confirmation of PILT funding.
County Administrator Derek Rapier led a budget work session March 17 that reviewed wages, insurance costs, capital priorities and retirement-fund funding, and requested board direction on several fronts ahead of formal budget decisions.
Rapier said health-insurance costs are rising, driven in part by specialty biologic drugs, and described a change in the county’s prescription strategy and provider that reduced a projected rate spike. “We switched…
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