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Daviess County officials consider short-term EMS tax to offset SB 1 revenue loss
Summary
Daviess County commissioners and staff held a public hearing on a proposed local emergency medical services (EMS) tax, discussing estimates of household cost, limits on how the revenue may be used and whether the county should instead draw from redevelopment (TIF) funds to postpone a tax decision.
Daviess County commissioners and staff held a public hearing on a proposed local emergency medical services (EMS) tax, discussing estimates of its household cost, limits on how the revenue may be used and whether the county should instead draw from redevelopment (TIF) funds to postpone a tax decision.
At the hearing the presiding officer said county financial advisers estimate the measure’s impact using a county median income of about $68,000 and that “the proposed EMS tax would ... be an impact of right around $62 a year” for that income level, adding the money would be restricted to emergency medical services. County staff clarified the state limits mean the levy would primarily support ambulance service, not a broader public safety tax covering police or volunteer fire departments.
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