New EMS plan on agenda
Source: By Jimmy Ryals, The Daily Reflector (NC), Sunday, July 08, 2007
The Pitt County Board of Commissioners will vote Monday on a plan for ambulance service north of the Tar River.
The plan they'll consider would extend county authority over ambulance service in Pactolus, Bethel and other northern Pitt areas to the end of the next fiscal year, June 30, 2008. Last month, the county canceled a $400,000 contract to privatize transportation in those areas.
Continued county management will cost $850,000, according to documents included in the agenda for Monday's county board meeting. Under the plan, employees who left the affected departments as the privatization effort began will be welcome to return, County Manager Scott Elliott said at a meeting with three commissioners Thursday.