He has approached the county for help in paying 4.5 percent of the local share.

The planning board voted to recommend to both counties to continue collecting the full local share of 4.25 percent.

The state already pays about 80 percent of the local share of these costs.

They also have argued that the local share of Medicaid costs should be capped at its present level.

By contrast, the two funds, which invest in many of the same stocks, can buy the local shares themselves.

The local share is $1.6 million, $150,000 more than the entire 1989 municipal budget.

Would have required the state to pay the local share of Medicaid costs.

Shift the local share of Medicaid and welfare costs to the state.

The fund has owned local shares since December 1996, when it paid 37,193 won each.

No other state has such a high local share.