OSSIPEE — At last Thursday's meeting, Carroll County Commissioner Kimberly Tessari (R-Ossipee) repeatedly hit a profane "BS button" while she blasted state Rep. Bill Marsh of Brookfield for being the supposed cause of a $900,000 county budget shortage.
Carroll County is getting only about $1.2 million worth of "Pro-Share" money when it was budgeted for a little over $2 million. Why that happened was the topic of a long Zoom meeting Thursday between the commissioners and state Medicaid Director Henry Lipman.
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