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Budget committee schedules joint meeting to settle ambulance service cost split after questions on call volume and wages
Summary
Committee members said a joint meeting next week at Lincoln will address a combined ambulance budget and distribution of costs after members raised questions about missing wage breakdowns, call volumes and a roughly $197,000 contingency figure.
Budget committee members agreed to place the Linwood/Lincoln/Woodstock ambulance budget on the agenda for a joint meeting next week at the Lincoln office, saying more detail is needed about wages, call volumes and proposed cost sharing.
The committee asked staff to provide a clearer wage breakdown and per-town allocation before the joint session. "I finally got the meeting and we're used to it," said Speaker 5, adding that John did a good job on the packet but "he left under the 2024 budgeted for wages. He left those blank, and it may be helpful for him to put numbers in there because it's probably going to be asked by…
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