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Kootenai County EMS presents FY26 plan; commissioners approve roughly $12.6 million budget
Summary
Kootenai County Emergency Medical Services outlined capital needs, revenue from ambulance transports and proposed staff and provider cost-of-living adjustments. Commissioners approved the EMS FY26 budget at the public hearing.
Kootenai County Emergency Medical Services (EMS) Chief Jay Wnowski presented the EMS system’s fiscal year 2026 budget to the Kootenai County Board of Commissioners on Aug. 27; commissioners then approved the EMS budget at the same hearing.
Wnowski said the county’s EMS system contracts with 10 fire districts and one nonprofit ambulance service, operates 11 ambulances 24 hours a day countywide, and owns the ambulances and medical equipment used across participating agencies. He described the mix of advanced life-support (ALS) and basic/advanced EMT ambulances and…
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