New ambulance provider Central EMS says it will be ready to roll in May, so the city’s new subcommittee directed to work out a new contract is on the fast track.
“I’m excited about where Augusta’s future in the EMS world would be headed,” said Interim City Administrator Takiyah Douse who chairs the subcommittee.
Central EMS says it needs to make a ten percent profit. But the amount of any subsidy was not reached at this meeting because the company says it needs to know what response times Augusta will want and need to see. “That’s what we have to balance how many ambulances that you need to reduce your response times down, balanced with how much money the system will cost in the budget and we have to get on the see-saw and make this work,” said Central EMS President Gary Coker.