The City of Clearwater met Tuesday night with residents to discuss the future of its EMS services.
The public gathering comes a little more than one month since a late-January meeting at which city officials discussed how volunteers are hard to come by and took a look at its options to keep those services running while meeting state regulations.
Clearwater has a pair of options to tackle the issue. First, it can add four paid positions, a director and three full-time paramedics. Adding these positions would come at an addition to taxpayer costs in the city.
The city could also rely solely on Sedgwick County EMS. It would cost the county about $500,000 to cover EMS service for Clearwater, Sedgwick County Public Information Officer Kate Flavin said in January.
The City of Clearwater is set to make a final decision on the future of its EMS services on March 12.
(Read more: KWCH News)