A joint committee that will take a close look at operations and finances of ambulance service in Allen County may have as many as nine members.
A five-year agreement for a moratorium on ambulance discussions between the county and Iola, which expires at the end of 2015, included provisions for a study committee to be formed after Jan. 1, 2011. Whatever the study group finds and recommends would go forward to the county and Iola.
The agreement, which perpetuated an $80,000-a-year subsidy to Iola’s ambulance service for its duration, called for a committee of six, three appointed by the Iola mayor and three by county commissioners.
Tuesday commissioners said they thought the committee should be expanded to give better representation of the county’s population. They mentioned that Humboldt and Moran, where county ambulances are stationed in addition to those in Iola, should have representation on the committee, as well as residents of LaHarpe and Elsmore-Savonburg areas and unincorporated parts of the county.
