It was a good news, bad news kind of meeting for Klickitat County Emergency Medical Services District No. 1’s board of directors. On Feb. 23, the directors learned that the EMS District’s grant application to a federal agency for funding to pay for equipment replacements and one new advanced life support ambulance had been turned down. That was the bad news. The upshot? The district withdrew its application. The EMS District applied to USDA Rural Development last December for $200,370. The district’s board of directors had previously approved listing the ambulance and equipment purchases as its 2017 capital budget.