County Commission abandons plans for county-wide ambulance district

The Hill County Commission has decided not to pursue the creation of a county-wide ambulance district in preparation for this year’s ballot, and instead voted today in an ambulance district meeting to create a resolution to place a proposal on the ballot for November’s election to increase the mills levied in the county, excluding the cities of Havre and Hingham, for the ambulance service from 1 mill to 8 mills.

This resolution would state that 6 of those mills would go to the Havre Ambulance Service and 2 would go to the Rudyard Ambulance Service.

Several at the meeting said the deci...