Faced with a choice between finding a way to pay Wausaukee Rescue Squad, Inc. a contract price large enough to provide full time paid employees or letting their residents go without rescue squad service as of January 1, representatives of the squad and the four municipalities it serves met on Tuesday evening, Sept. 29 to hammer out some plans.
Squad President Steve VanDenBerg said volunteers have been getting harder and harder to find, and they are down to eight responders. He and Jaime VanDenBerg, office administrator and EMT, said this cannot keep up.
After long, hard discussion, representatives of the Village of Wausaukee and towns of Wausaukee, Wagner and Amberg agreed to split the estimated cost of $31,000 per month based on the number of improved parcels in each municipality.