{"id":61630,"date":"2015-05-07T17:19:25","date_gmt":"2015-05-07T21:19:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=61630"},"modified":"2015-06-27T11:42:21","modified_gmt":"2015-06-27T15:42:21","slug":"hamilton-ambulance-taxing-district-defeated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=61630","title":{"rendered":"Hamilton Ambulance Taxing District Defeated"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/letters-to-the-editor.image_.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-58702\" src=\"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/letters-to-the-editor.image_.jpg\" alt=\"letters-to-the-editor.image_\" width=\"300\" height=\"229\" srcset=\"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/letters-to-the-editor.image_.jpg 300w, https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/letters-to-the-editor.image_-150x114.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>To the Editor:<\/p>\n<p>(Hamilton, NY- May 7, 2015) The results of the vote on Ambulance Taxing District referendum held on April 28 were close, with 49 percent voting in favor of the district and 51 percent voting against its passage. Because the measure was defeated, funding to support ambulance service in the town will be paid for within the annual Town and Village budgets.<\/p>\n<p>We will continue our efforts to make sure that Town residents have a robust 24-7 emergency paramedic coverage that is there when you and your neighbors need them. Working with the Ambulance Service Community Working Group, the Town Board will continue to collaborate with the Villages of Hamilton and Earlville, the Town of Lebanon, SOMAC, Community Memorial Hospital, local fire departments, and the Madison County Office of Emergency Management to find efficiencies, control costs, and encourage volunteer support for this vital service.<\/p>\n<p>The Town Board appreciates the time and energy that town residents devoted to understanding the issue and expressing their concerns. We understand that the bottom line message from all voters was \u201ckeep taxes as low as possible while still providing emergency medical coverage for our community.\u201d We agree with this sentiment, and pledge to continue our best efforts to achieve that goal.<\/p>\n<p>Visit the Town website for more information &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.TownofHamiltonNY.org\" target=\"_blank\">www.TownofHamiltonNY.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Town of Hamilton Council<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><strong>Suzanne Collins, Council Member<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Peter Darby, Deputy Supervisor<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>David Holcomb, Council Member<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Christine Rossi, Council Member<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Eve Ann Shwartz, Town of Hamilton Supervisor<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To the Editor: (Hamilton, NY- May 7, 2015) The results of the vote on Ambulance Taxing District referendum held on April 28 were close, with 49 percent voting in favor of the district and 51 percent voting against its passage. Because the measure was defeated, funding to support ambulance service in the town will be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":58702,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23678],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-letterstotheeditor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61630","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61630"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61630\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/58702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}