County Budget review and analysis. Can you help?

[Rob Tucker]

Okay folks. Today I acquired a few hundred pages of county budget to read. Some of this stuff I am familiar with. Some I am not. Many parts of it are so detached from reality that they can only be comprehended if other things are known.

So on this topic I am inviting research participation. Might be an interesting community cyber project. It it gets too multifaceted I may provide a separate forum for budget analysis. But not yet. If it spirals out of control I will shut it down.

Here's the rules: No arguing. No ranting or grandstanding or trolling. I am warning in advance I will delete extraneous distractions without comment. Q's & A's only.

Here's a fact from the proposed 2010/2011 budget:

Employee Health Plans appropriation is $42,016,380.00


Questions:

How many CoH employees does this cover exactly?

What is the average cost per employee for Health Plans?

Bob. Help me out. I'm going to continue with my highlighter...