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Webster County EMS advisory council hears split views and fails to advance Otho funding proposal
Summary
The council debated whether to recognize Otho Fire as a transporting EMS service and recommend a $75,000 allocation from the county EMS levy. Conflicting call counts, CAD/mapping discrepancies and liability concerns left the motion without a second and the committee made no formal recommendation.
Webster County’s EMS Advisory Council on Oct. 22 considered a request from Otho Fire to be recognized as a transporting EMS service and to receive $75,000 from the county’s recently approved EMS levy, but the council took no formal action after a motion failed for lack of a second.
The council heard written data read into the record from Dylan Hagen, the county EMA, listing Jan. 30–Sept. 30, 2025 figures: “Total calls, 98. Total EMS calls, 62… Otho transported 34,” and noting that Otho responded on about “69% of calls” during that span (written comment read aloud, SEG 113–125). Otho Fire Chief Marty Smith answered questions in person and said the CAD data Dylan used is a condensed version of longer dispatch printouts and that county dispatch or the original records could be audited to reconcile differences (SEG 285–313; SEG 296–316). “He specified all the colored sheet exactly what each one was and whether we responded… He already gave a condensed version of it,” Smith said, urging the…
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