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Commissioners consider buying remounted medic unit for new Station 2; funding sources discussed
Summary
At a county commissioners meeting, staff described a ready-in-production remounted ambulance for use at a planned Station 2 and proposed paying from ARPA funds and public-safety swap dollars; commissioners discussed timing, warranties and remount versus new-build tradeoffs.
The Board of County Commissioners heard detailed discussion about purchasing a remounted medic unit that staff said could be assigned to the new Station 2 in Mineral Bluff. Staff described the vehicle as a Ford F-550 chassis with a remounted service box, saying the chassis alone is roughly $75,000 and the box-plus-chassis package was described in discussion as about $278,000. “It comes with a 5 year warranty on the workmanship and then a 2 year electrical warranty,” an emergency services staff member said. The staff member said the box is a heavy ring-style box that the…
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