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Commissioners approve EMS budget change: four paramedic positions added and remount funded from county fund balance
Summary
The Board of Commissioners voted 5'0'00 to 0 to amend the county budget to add four full-time paramedic positions and to fund a remounted ambulance by reallocating the previously requested new-ambulance dollars and appropriating the difference from fund balance.
Macon County commissioners voted to amend the proposed fiscal-year budget for Emergency Medical Services, approving a change requested by EMS leadership that substitutes a remounted ambulance and four full-time paramedic positions for the district's prior request for a new ambulance.
Jeremy Cabe, representing EMS, told commissioners that a new ambulance build would take 18 to 24 months and cost roughly $385,000; instead, EMS proposed…
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