Floyd County has made their participation in the next contract with AMR Ambulance official.
The County and the City of Charles City have a joint agreement with AMR set to expire June 30th in which they split the current cost of $200,000 to subsidize the operating expenses of the private ambulance service provider. The new three-year contract calls for that subsidy to jump to $415,000 for the first year starting July 1st, with a 3% increase in cost each of the following years.
City Administrator Steve Diers told the Board of Supervisors this week the hope is the new contract will buy time to form their own public ambulance service.
Supervisors approved the new contract Monday with Charles City likely to do the same during their City Council meeting next week.
Since January, the City of Nashua has had a 28E agreement with Charles City and Floyd County to extend AMR’s service into Nashua for a six-month period ending June 30th. A motion to continue that arrangement past July 1st failed to pass at last week’s Nashua City Council meeting on a 2-2 vote with one council member absent.
Charles City and Floyd County will get help in the subsidy payment for the first year of the new contract from Floyd County Medical Center, which has committed $100,000 in fiscal year 2023-24. Both Diers and Supervisor Jim Jorgenson, also chair of the joint City/County ambulance commission, say it appears unlikely that FCMC would continue that contribution beyond that.
