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Delaware County supervisors debate county-run ambulance service, sales-tax sharing amid AMR contract
Summary
Supervisors spent an extended portion of a county meeting discussing whether to create a county-run ambulance/EMS service or continue contracting with AMR, with concerns about cost, staffing and the distribution of sales-tax revenue to help towns that maintain local emergency services.
At a meeting of the Delaware County Board of Supervisors, members discussed whether the county should establish a county-run ambulance service or continue contracting with AMR, focusing on staffing, long-term costs and whether sales-tax sharing could relieve towns that maintain local ambulance or police services.
The discussion followed several supervisors raising concerns that some towns that operate volunteer or town-run ambulance services are being asked to pay countywide taxes that will fund an umbrella emergency medical services contract. “I just would hate to see that end up in our situation with the EMS when there's something we could address at this moment,” one supervisor said during the discussion.
County staff responded with operational and financial context. “Personal cost alone will be over $1,200,000 per year,” a county…
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