With the passage of new bylaws at the Gonzales County Emergency Medical Services and Rescue board meeting July 16, the board has shrunk from 11 members to three. The move, described by the EMS’s future executive director Eddie Callender Jr. as a “milestone,” was an important step in the ongoing Gonzales County Emergency Services District No. 1 merger with the EMS. “The whole point of this three-member board is not only to transition us over to the ESD being taken care of, but then this board will have to stay in place for a period of time even after the ESD then takes it over because the collection agency is still going to be having bills and things that is the responsibility of the EMS board. So, it has to stay in existence to keep and finish paying all those bills,” ESD board member Dr. Commie Hisey said at the ESD board meeting July 11. “So, that board will not be dissolved until every last bill is paid.”