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Alachua County chief: new county station shifted calls; High Springs funding hit by cost-per-call method
Summary
Alachua County Fire Rescue Chief Harold Diaz told commissioners Aug. 21 that the county's cost‑per‑call funding method and the opening of Station 21 shifted calls away from High Springs and will reduce the city's county-sourced fire revenue; he urged dialogue with the county commission for a possible bridge year
Alachua County Fire Rescue Chief Harold Diaz told the High Springs commission on Aug. 21 that the county's funding formula — a cost‑per‑call methodology used to reimburse municipal departments — is already shifting revenue away from High Springs after the county opened Station 21 earlier this year.
Diaz said the methodology was adopted in 2019 to create a uniform, data-driven payment system after years of year‑to‑year negotiations with municipalities. "The original cost per call was somewhere around $713 per call," Diaz said; "This year, that cost was $8.65 per call," language used in his presentation to describe how the county applies CPI and the cost calculation (see full transcript). He said early post‑opening data indicated about one call per day had migrated to the new county station, reducing what the county pays to the city under the…
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