When the Skagit County commissioners organized a group of 24 to look at the future of emergency medical services, many thought it was an opportunity for candid talk about the county’s ambulance systems.
Now, after a meeting in late December where the commissioners went against a recommendation to continue looking at how emergency medical services should be governed, some members of that group are feeling their eight months of work was all for nothing.
“They weren’t looking for the answer we gave them,” said Mike Noyes, chief of Skagit County Fire District 11 and president of the Skagit County Fire Chiefs Association.