HomeMy WebLinkAboutSMSI Letter 10.16.2006.PDFOctober 16.2006
Kyle Wilber
New York Department of State
Division of Local Government Services
41 State Street
Albany, NY 12231
Dear Mr. Wilber:
This letter is an acknowledgment of my support of Tompkins County's application to the
New York State Shared Municipal Service Incentive (SMSD Grant Program for
assistance in developing an inter-municipal consortium to design and implement a plan
for addressing rising employee health care costs.
Tompkins County and its 16 municipalities-formally, the Tompkins County Council of
Governments' (TCCOG) has preliminary,research indicating that by offering a common
health insurance program that pools health insurance risk and assures reasonable
employee cost sharing, there could be achieved annual savings of nearly $6.8 million. A
SMSI grant award would undoubtedly place TCCOG on a promising path of reducing
pressure on ever-tightening municipal budgets and an ever-increasing tax rate burden on
its local taxpayers.
I applaud TCCOG's readiness to establish an innovative, cost sharing qpproach to
providing affordable, quality health care for its employees, and I offer my full support in
this endeavor.
Sincerelv.
Walter R. Lynn
Mayor