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Bond County Special Services District weighs options to replace totaled ambulance
Summary
Board members discussed buying back a totaled ambulance from the insurer and rebuilding it, selling the totaled vehicle toward a replacement, or applying the $47,000 insurance payout toward a new purchase; the decision was tabled pending insurer and price information.
At a Nov. 19 meeting in Greenville, the Bond County Special Services District Members discussed options to replace a recently totaled ambulance, hearing technical and budgetary details from Scott Casolari of Rural Med E.M.S. Chair Bernard Myers and the five-member board reviewed tradeoffs between rebuilding and buying new.
Casolari told the board the district could accept the insurance payment (about $47,000) and apply it toward a new purchase, or ask the insurer whether the district could buy the totaled unit back and either mount the ambulance box on a new chassis or sell the unit and use proceeds toward replacement. He said rebuild timelines currently run "about two years," while new transit vans are available on dealer lots now, creating a trade-off between speed and potentially lower cost.
County Clerk Meg A. Sybert and board member Wes Pourchot confirmed the SSD has roughly $230,000 available in its budget for a replacement, not including the insurer's check. The board asked Sybert to contact the insurance company to determine whether buy-back is an option and what the cost would be; Casolari said he would obtain pricing for chassis or vans and return the figures to the board at the next meeting.
Because the board did not have insurer or vendor pricing available, members voted to table any disposal or purchase decision until the next meeting. The motion to table was made by Jacob Rayl and seconded by Wes Pourchot and carried on a roll call vote of 5 ayes and 0 nays. The board will revisit the options after insurance and vendor follow-ups are completed.
