The Guthrie City Council Tuesday approved two renewal district agreements providing emergency medical services to Logan County.
The Council approved the EMS agreement between the City of Guthrie and Logan County Emergency Medical Services District I-1Board of Trustees or LCEMS.
LCEMS was created in 1982 for the purpose of providing emergency medical services for the district comprising the Independent School District No.1 area through the levy of an ad valorem tax of 3.07 mills levied upon all real property situated in the district.
LCEMS pays 90 percent of the 3.07 mills levied as compensation for providing emergency medical services from Oct. 1, 2022 through Sept. 30, 2023. In the FY 2023 budget, $496,473 is the projected revenue to be received from the LCEMS, plus an additional $42,000 for two ambulances purchased in FY 2020.
The Council approved the EMS Agreement between the City of Guthrie and the North and East Logan County Emergency Medical Services District Board of Trustees. The trustees will pay the City $120,000 for the period of Oct.1, 2022 through Sept. 30, 2023.
Ward 3 Councilman Don Channel said he wasn’t against approving the current agreements, but said the City needs to look at its options due to the financial impact providing those EMS services has on the City’s budget.
“We are talking about different ways to look at this,” Channel said. “One of the ways is keeping our EMS service serving the
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