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Health costs have city in hole
Updated: Tuesday, 08 Jan 2013, 1:10 PM EST
Published : Tuesday, 08 Jan 2013, 1:10 PM EST
MARION, Ind. (AP) - A north-central Indiana city has started the new year with virtually no money on hand after its mayor says the community was buffeted by rising health care costs.
Marion began 2102 with $2.3 million in cash reserves but ended it with just $44,000, leaving it unable to repay a $1 million short-term loan from Marion Municipal Utilities.
Controller Cindy Wright tells the Chronicle-Tribune the city is working to repay that loan as soon as possible.
Mayor Wayne Seybold says the numbers show Marion's fiscal "disaster" came mostly from health insurance, not administration overspending. Marion's health insurance reserve fund that supports city workers' coverage went from a $2 million deficit to a $5 million deficit last year.
Seybold says Marion is poised to rebuild its finances during 2013.
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