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Emergency services seeks added staff, grants and equipment to expand EMS coverage
Summary
The county’s emergency services coordinator requested one additional ALS position, an administrative position and a bundle of grant-funded equipment and generator replacements to improve coverage and reliability for volunteer agencies.
Grayson County’s emergency services coordinator presented the department’s FY26 budget request and asked the Board of Supervisors to support additional staff and several grant-funded equipment projects to shore up countywide EMS coverage.
"We'd like to add an additional EMS position," said Mr. Folwell, the county’s emergency services coordinator. He told the board that adding one ALS position would cost about $64,000 per year including fringes and would move staffing closer to seven-day coverage; Folwell said his office currently lacks personnel to answer roughly a quarter of EMS dispatches when no provider is scheduled.
Folwell described three other key staffing and equipment requests: an administrative/office…
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