MISSOURI: Health department looking for budget trims - (Springfield News-Leader)
April 9, 2008 – 6:54 pmhttp://www.news-leader.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080408/NEWS01/804080357/1007
Restaurant owners and Ozark Empire Fair vendors could, according to this story, face inspection fees for the first time in 2009 as a way to help shoulder costs with the Springfield-Greene County Health Department.
Cost hikes for clean air burn permits, travel vaccines and asbestos inspections are also possible, as Director Kevin Gipson ponders how to trim $450,000 from the department’s annual $10.1 million budget.
Gipson was further cited as saying Greene County is one of the only places in Missouri that doesn’t charge a restaurant inspection fee.
He’s considering a rate structure much like Columbia’s, based on food volume. For example, if food sales are under $100,000, the owner might pay a $100 flat fee that year to cover two inspections and one spot inspection if needed, he said. Restaurants with sales of $100,000 to $500,000 could pay a $200 annual fee, and so on.
“It won’t completely pay for the program but […]
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