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Muscatine County supervisors set May 4 hearing to consider declaring EMS an essential service
Summary
Emergency Manager Chris Jasper urged supervisors to declare EMS an essential service to create an advisory council and fund non-disposable equipment and staffing; the board set a public hearing for May 4 to begin the process of possibly placing a levy on the ballot.
Emergency Manager Chris Jasper told the Muscatine County Board of Supervisors on Feb. 23 that Iowa Code "4 22 d" allows a county to declare Emergency Medical Services (EMS) an essential service, appoint an EMS advisory council and propose a separate levy to pay for non-disposable equipment, vehicles and staffing.
Jasper said the declaration is the first administrative step that would permit the county to collect budgets from the county's EMS providers and recommend a levy (up to 75 cents per $1,000 valuation) for a ballot measure. "This first step here just declaring it allows you folks to appoint an EMS advisory council to look further into this, and what it may look like here in the county," Jasper said.
Why it matters: County officials and EMS providers have reported staffing…
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