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Supervisors direct staff to add VRS hazardous‑duty retirement numbers for EMS recruitment; cost would be significant
Summary
County staff discussed adding EMS and fire employees to the VRS hazardous‑duty retirement supplement, explaining 1.7 and 1.85 multiplier options would cost roughly $232,000 or $330,000 annually respectively; the board asked staff to show the 1.7 cost in the draft budget for review.
Lancaster County administrators discussed expanding the Virginia Retirement System (VRS) hazardous‑duty retirement supplement to cover emergency medical services and fire personnel as a recruitment and retention tool.
Don explained two multiplier options that would increase the county’s VRS contribution rate. "If we chose to adopt…
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