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Greene County proposes annual town payments and coordinator hire to steady ambulance services
Summary
County officials proposed annual direct payments to towns (example: $100,000 each) plus hiring a county coordinator to standardize purchasing, training and recruitment as a multi-year alternative to immediate full consolidation of ambulance services.
Speaker 1, a county official, told the Greene County EMS Policy Group the county will propose annual direct support payments to towns and hire a county staffer to coordinate procurement, training and recruitment to stabilize struggling ambulance services. "If we gave each town a $100,000 annual donation from the county," Speaker 1 said, "that would be obviously $1,300,000 that the county would absorb," and he framed that payment as a way to avoid a one-year $12–15 million shock from immediate consolidation.
The proposal would also absorb each town's contribution to the FlyCar Green EMS program (Speaker 1 estimated that contribution at roughly…
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