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Old 09-20-2008   #4 (permalink)
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Re: Need An Ambulance? Call the Council
According to the Demopolis Times article, the money was withdrawn because the rest of Marengo County was not giving any money to TEMS. Demopolis seemed to be the only one that had provided money in the past,
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The Demopolis City Council’s decision not to include the Tombigbee EMS ambulance service in its 2008-09 budget was just the final step in the service’s request to be subsidized not only by the City of Demopolis, but also the City of Linden and Marengo County, each of which had also not provided any funds for the service.

It was just a formality, actually, as it was an “all-or-none” agreement, with each entity’s requested subsidy determined as a proportion based on the number of calls answered in each area over the last three years.

“The way it was originally proposed was we went to the three governments, and this was an ‘all-or-none’ concept,” said Arthur Evans, the chief financial officer of the hospital. “That was the difficulty, was that it had to be an ‘all-or-none’ concept, where they each equally and jointly shared in the responsibility to help assist the ambulance service.”
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I think it is crappy for the city not to offer funds to TEMS, but the City of Demopolis cannot be the only place in the County that funds TEMS, the rest of the County must pay its fair share. On another note, all employees did get a 4% raise this year, that is up from 2% they have gotten the past few years. With cost of living going up, I think that is great!
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