County treasurer warns Frontier Ambulance contract left dispatch fund $200,000 short
Fremont County treasurer Jim Anderson told commissioners the dispatch fund is in a structural deficit after Frontier Ambulance’s contract froze user fees at $234,500, producing multi-year write-offs and nearly $40,000 in doubtful accounts; options discussed included subsidies, fee restructuring or grant seeking.
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Jim Anderson, Fremont County treasurer, told commissioners a concentrated set of users — the sheriff’s office, Frontier Ambulance and the City of Lander — provide about 90% of the dispatch fund’s user fees, and that Frontier’s contract has frozen that provider’s fee at $234,500 for the life of the contract. Anderson said the mismatch between negotiated contract amounts and annually recalculated user-fee allocations resulted in significant write-offs and outstanding receivables, including about $39,000 tied to AMR’s contract termination.
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