Clark County joint EMS committee agrees to file unsigned 2021 interlocal agreement with DLG, moves to reconcile billing errors

Clark County and the city agreed on Wednesday to complete and submit a previously unsigned April 2021 interlocal emergency medical services (EMS) agreement to the Department for Local Government and to work toward reconciling multi-year billing discrepancies, county and city officials said.

The committee — convened as the Clark County Joint EMS Committee and attended by Judge Yates, Mayor Reed and members of both governing bodies — agreed that the 2021 interlocal EMS agreement should be finalized with an added introductory paragraph explaining why the document was never executed and then submitted to DLG for approval. Committee members said the unsigned 2021 agreement has been used as the operational framework but was never filed with the state, leaving uncertainty about its legal enforceability.

The move matters because county and city staff found several billing discrepancies dating to at least fiscal years 2023 and 2024 that produced competing balances between the two governments. The committee heard staff estimates that the city overbilled the county on 9-1-1 dispatch charges by $94,959.81 in fiscal 2023 and $39,969.12 in fiscal 2024, totaling $134,928.93;…