“No one screamed ‘No’,” was how Greene County board of supervisors chair John Muir described the reaction of five mayors of county towns to a suggestion they help pay some of the cost of a county-based ambulance service.Muir and supervisor Dawn Rudolph reported at the board’s Jan. 17 meeting attending a meeting of the mayors in the county the previous evening. They went to update the mayors on the county’s transition to a county-based ambulance service. The supervisors hope to enter into 28E agreements with the towns for funding.
The county has for decades contracted with Dennis Morlan doing business as Greene County Emergency Medical Services. Morlan employs the EMTs and operates the business, but the county owns the ambulances. With Morlan’s retirement June 30, the county will employ an EMS director and the EMTs.
“The success (of county-based ambulance) will feel better if we’re all somehow contributing,” Muir said.
The mayors of Scranton, Churdan, Paton, Dana and Jefferson were at the meeting.
