FARMINGTON – An ambulance representative will meet Monday with Phillips, Avon and Franklin County officials to discuss a new option for ambulance services.

Franklin Memorial Hospital Ambulance Director Kevin McGinnis said he is working on details for a new option to provide a quasi-volunteer ambulance service in the area now served by AMPS Ambulance.

The option, if everything can be worked out and the cost kept within the means of Avon, Phillips and Madrid Township taxpayers, would be to maintain an ambulance in Phillips with some paid employees and some volunteer staff.

The cost of the proposal is still being worked out, McGinnis said. He didn’t expect the price tag for the new option to exceed the $65,202 for Phillips and $33,000 for Avon that voters rejected at town meetings in March. But McGinnis said he also didn’t think the service option would be able to be provided at the current cost of ambulance service, which is $21,352 for Phillips and $13,000 for Avon.

Members of the former AMPS Board of Directors, now known as Sandy River Ambulance Association, are also expected to attend Monday’s meeting, McGinnis said.

A former manager of the AMPS service, Mike Comber, said last month that he and other members of the Sandy River Ambulance Association were looking into buying back AMPS Ambulance from the hospital. FMH bought the ambulance service in 2000. The nonprofit group put the sale proceeds in interest bearing certificates and would use that money to buy the service. Comber was not available for comment Tuesday.

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