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Residents and EMS staff press commissioners over potential ambulance district reorganization; officials warn of tax implications
Summary
Paramedics and community members questioned the board about proposals to reorganize the ambulance district; staff and the comptroller warned that dissolving and reestablishing the district could change levy capacity and result in loss of urban-renewal tax increment dollars, and that statutory steps and voter approval would be required.
Multiple public commenters, including an EMS paramedic and the deputy chief, pressed commissioners for clarity about whether the county intends to reorganize the ambulance district and what that would mean for governance and taxes.
Janessa, a Bonner County EMS paramedic, asked why the commissioners would no longer serve as the ambulance district board after the split and expressed concern the change would represent a…
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