COLDWATER, MI (WTVB) – After making some tweaks, the Branch County Board of Commissioners brought forward a finalized three year contract with LifeCare Ambulance to next week’s meeting during their work session on Thursday.
Branch County Administrator Bud Norman indicated the changes to the contract that was first approved by the Commissioners in October were not significant.
The contract calls for the county pay an annual subsidy of $192,500 for two full time ambulances and a third ambulance that would be available eight hours a day, five days a week.
Two options were originally presented this summer. The first option that would have cost $385,000 was a three unit system in which two units would be available around the clock while the third unit would work 12 hours per day. The second option called for two units operating 24 hours a day at a cost of $75,000.
LifeCare made the proposal that was agreed to after the 911 Board asked them in August to come back with a third option.
The old contract between Branch County and LifeCare expired in September.
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