PIERRE — Last year Hughes and Stanley Counties and the cities within those counties considered sending to voters a ballot measure to establish an ambulance district to support increases in costs to have the service. House Bill 1113 would have address the funding for ambulance district, but District 24 Representative Mike Weisgram pulled the bill…
Weisgram was the bills prime sponsor. District 24 Representative Will Mortenson says 1113 would have given counties more flexibility in assigning different tax levies on certain functions, like an ambulance district…
Mortenson says Hughes County is not alone when it comes to county solvency…
The cost for ambulance service from American Medical Response in Hughes and Stanley County increased 307-percent from last year; from 135-thousand dollars to 415-thousand dollars.
