Depending on how wage and benefit package negotiations proceed, the county may hire its first ever ambulance services director following a 10 a.m., Feb. 19 closed session.
Chairman Jack …
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Depending on how wage and benefit package negotiations proceed, the county may hire its first ever ambulance services director following a 10 a.m., Feb. 19 closed session.
Chairman Jack Seward said at Tuesday’s Board of Supervisors meeting that the Feb. 19 special session will mainly be a closed one with the second candidate for the position and likely could be followed by a hiring in open session.
Last week, the board rescinded its offer to its first-choice candidate after a background check of the individual disclosed information that bothered board members.
The offer was then made to the second candidate on the final four list.
“We could have a director right after the special meeting,” Seward told The News Tuesday.
The new director could, while finishing a two-week’s notice to a current employer, begin duties part-time with Washington County.
The director would start full-time in early March.
If something changes with the second candidate, the board will go on to the third.
The current privately contracted ambulance services end at midnight June 30 when the business closes permanently.
The board expects it will have its newly formed emergency ambulance services department in operation by July 1.
