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r RECOMMENDATION The Board of County Commissioners should serve notice on both districts that they will no longer be able to participate in the self-insurance trust fund. Due to the nature of the insurance market, I suggest that the effective date of your decision bE July 1, 1987. Commissioner Eggert inquired exactly what the extent of our liability is on this. Administrator Balczun advised from reviewing our contract documents and the lack of an in-depth agreement with the participating agencies, it appears we have unlimited liability. Commissioner Bird stated that he would like to have this handled in a more diplomatic way and say we are considering dropping coverage as of a certain date. Administrator Balczun informed the Board that he already has done that. Actually there is no nice way to do this. The Administrator explained that we operate a self-funded insurance trust that essentially is funded by the.taxpayers of the county, and the county has no business providing this service or func- tioning as an insurance company. We can help these agencies find insurance and try to guide them, but we can't provide them insurance. He emphasized that if any employee of these districts goes out and incurs $100,000 of medical expenses this year, we just "ate" that. Chairman Scurlock did believe several of the agency em- ployees have had some major problems. He continued that one of his major concerns is that we have had pretty good relationships with both of these agencies, and there is a great need, especi- ally with the Water Management District, to continue to cooperate as we have to address rights-of-way, easements, etc., for our utilities. Commissioner Bird asked if the Water Management District referred to is the Indian River Farms District, St. John's or just what specific entity, and it was noted that it is the Indian River Farms District headed by John Amos. 37 tel. FEB3 1987 BOOK