The county will be paying the city more for ambulance services in the next fiscal year and into the future.
York County Commissioner Bill Bamesberger said he and Commissioner Randy Obermier (who sit on the county’s budget committee) sat down with officials from the City of York to discuss the matter after it was discovered there had been hardly any increases in cost since the original agreement was signed back in the 1980s.
The county was paying about $214,000 a year.
After negotiations between the two entities’ officials, an agreement was drafted that would increase next year’s payment to $249,000 (which is split and paid by quarters).
“Then it would go to $294,000 next year,” Bamesberger explained. “And the next year it would go to $319,000. Then each year after that, it would increase by 3 percent annually. I make a motion to adopt this interlocal agreement revision.”