County picks up new PERS tab
County officials were hit with a 25 percent increase in their PERS obligation for employees when the Public Employee Retirement System set its new rates Friday for the 2013-15 biennium. That’s only a little more than half the statewide average, and well under what they were expecting. Still, it will mean an additional outlay of $600,000 to $700,000, according to Commissioner Leslie Lewis.The ...