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d <br />ll= <br />HARRY L. COX, PRESIDENT OF A & S AMBULANCE SERVICE, APPEARED AND <br />REQUESTED A SUBSIDY IN THE AMOUNT OF $15,000 SO THAT THEY CAN CONTINUE TO <br />PROVIDE NON -EMERGENCY AMBULANCE SERVICE. <br />MR. COX STATED THAT A & S AMBULANCE SERVICE HAS BEEN IN BUSINESS <br />FOR APPROXIMATELY 6 YEARS. ABOUT TWO YEARS AGO HE APPEARED BEFORE THE BOARD <br />REGARDING THE EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICE LEGISLATION, AND HE WAS ADVISED AT <br />THAT TIME TO WORK TOWARDS GETTING THE REQUIREMENTS FOR NON -EMERGENCY SERVICES <br />CHANGED. MR. COX STATED THAT HE HAS WORKED ON THIS, BUT HAS NOT BEEN. ABLE <br />TO CHANGE THIS ACT, HE CONTINUED THAT HE HAS RUN OUT OF MONEY AND IS IN NEED <br />OF AN ANSWER FROM THE BOARD AS SOON AS POSSIBLE. <br />MR. COX STATED THAT A & S AMBULANCE SERVICE HAS BEEN IN BUSINESS FOR <br />APPROXIMATELY 6 YEARS. ABOUT Ti.70 YEARS AGO HE APPEARED BEPORE THE PoARD RE- <br />GARDING A SUBSIDY RELATIVE TO EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERT/TCE LEGISLATION, AND HE <br />WAS ADVISED AT THAT TIME TO WORK TOWARDS GETTING THE REOUIREMENtS FOR NON- <br />EMERGENCY SERVICES CHANGED. MR, COX STATED THAT HE HAS WORKED ON THIS, BUT <br />HAS NOT BEEN ABLE TO CHANGE THIS ACT, HE CONTINUED THAT HE HAS RUN OUT OF <br />MONEY AND IS IN NEED OF AN ANSWER.FROM THE BOARD AS SOON AS PnSSIBLE. <br />MR. COX SUBMITTED A FINANCIAL STATEMENT WHICH SHOWED A $4,605.00 <br />DEFICIT. HE STATED THAT HE HAS NEVER.RECEIVED A SALARY IN THE SIX YEARS HE <br />HAS OPERATED THIS SERVICE. <br />MR. COX STATED THAT A & S AMBULANCE SERVICE GETS ALONG VERY WELL <br />AND WORKS WELL WITH THE VOLUNTEER AMBULANCE SQUAD, AND AT TIMES THE VOLUNTEERS <br />HAVE MADE RUNS THAT WERE NOT EMERGENCIES, BUT THEY HAVE DIFFICULTY SOMETIMES <br />DISTINGUISHING EMERGENCIES FROM NON=EMERGENCIES. MR. COX CONTINUED THAT HE <br />COLLECTS ON ONLY 50 - 51% OF HIS RUNS. <br />COMMISSIONER WODTKE ASKED IF THE FEES CHARGED COULD BE RAISED. <br />MR. COX STATED THAT THE FEES OF $1.00 PER MILE AND $25,00 PICK-UP <br />ARE SET BY THE STATE, AND MOST OF HIS PATIENTS ARE INDIGENT. THE STATE IS <br />NOW SUGGESTING DECREASING RATES. HE STATED THAT HE MADE 552 RUNS DURING 1975, <br />AND 95% OF THEM WERE IN THE MEDICADE, MEDICARE CATEGORY. <br />LEE NUZIE, PRESIDENT OF THE INDIAN RIVER COUNTY VOLUNTEER AMBULANCE <br />SQUAD APPEARED AND STATED THAT THIS WAS DISCUSSED AT THEIR BOARD MEETING, AND <br />RICHARD TODD WAS REQUESTED TO PREPARE A STATEMENT. <br />RICHARD TODD STATED THAT HE MET WITH THEIR ATTORNEY,, -B. T. COOKSEY, <br />ON FEBRUARY T, 1976, AND A LETTER WAS WRITTEN TO CONFIRM THAT THE VOLUNTEERS <br />-2g- <br />FES 4197 �:., <br />��� �,, 35 <br />