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Resident asks about EMS transport for seniors; board says unpaid calls are sometimes declined
Summary
A Bonner County resident asked whether the district has addressed transportation costs for seniors; staff said the district has worked on the issue but often turns down nonpaying transport requests because they are not reimbursed.
During public comment, Wayne Martin, a Bonner County resident, asked whether the district had worked with health-care facilities on the cost of transporting seniors at night. "Is that also available to the fire service?" he asked earlier about the cooperative; later he returned to the topic of senior transport and asked whether arrangements had been proposed to facilities.
The agency official replied that the district has worked on the issue but that "you'll occasionally get those calls, but we, you know, politely turn them down because we don't get paid." The board did not take formal action on the subject at this meeting; the exchange was recorded as public input for staff consideration.
