Yesterday on Regional Radio News, we discussed the County Board's passing of a motion instead of a resolution to put to vote a tax levy for ambulance service in DeWitt County.

The County Board will discuss the issue further and will vote on a resolution that would take the issue to a referendum, where the motion basically did not do anything. DeWitt County State's attorney Dick Koritz says many issues linger still. First there are several areas of DeWitt that have Fire District coverage that comes into DeWitt County.

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While the southern portion of the County, near Maroa, does not have a tax levy in place for an ambulance service, Koritz says they may have an agreement in place with Decatur Memorial Hospital to have ambulance service provided through them, and that would be another issue the county faces.

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Should the voters approve the tax levy, the issues then become who runs the ambulance service or where do the vehicles come from? Koritz says because the DeWitt County Board would be implementing the county wide tax levy, they could control it, but those questions certainly have a little more time to be answered, as the Dr. John Warner Hospital is not ending it's services until December 31, 2012.

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Koritz says many of these issues are not going to be solved overnight. He adds these issues are very important issues at this point that need to be worked out and the citizens of the county certainly deserve to have the answers to them, and those answers will greatly determine how the issue is going to be resolved.