Prescription savings detailed (11/04/2008)

Jay County residents saved $187,302.43 on prescriptions in the last year as part of a nationwide drug plan.

Since September 2007, a total of 585 residents have taken advantage of the National Association of Counties prescription discount plan, an increase of 470 people.

The residents of Jay County saw an average savings of 23.1 percent, which translates out to $11.58 per prescription.

The program covers 1,090 counties, just more than one-third of the nation's counties.

A total of 10.8 million prescriptions have been covered across the U.S. with a total savings of about $123 million.

The program helps people pay for prescription drugs that are not covered under their insurance plans or for people without healthcare.

In other business Monday afternoon, the Jay County Commissioners:

•Approved a motion to create a new line item in the sheriff's budget to pay for compensation time. Sheriff Ray Newton said he will transfer additional money from his salaries budget into the new line item.

•Make Jay Emergency Medical Services director Theresa Foster-Geesaman purchasing agent to use $2,365 from the EMS base maintenance fund to purchase a washer and dryer and some furniture for the new Dunkirk EMS base.

•Made highway superintendent Ken Wellman purchasing agent to buy a new salt spreader at a cost of $11,280.

•Approved creation of a new line item to pay for a shortfall from the victim advocates position grant to be made in the deferral fund in the prosecutor's office budget.

•Approved requiring purchase of stickers by owners of horse-drawn buggies, under the condition that new buggy plates are purchased every five years. The commissioners were asked to join other neighboring counties in changing the procedures for buggy licenses by Adams County Auditor Bill Borne.

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