Allen County commissioners — Dick Works reluctantly — voted Tuesday to spend $63,200 to remodel the Heartland Rural Electric shop building to accommodate county ambulances and crews.
An adjunct was that the work be completed within six weeks of the county taking possession of the building, or sometime in June if Heartland vacates the structure later this month as expected.
Ambulances stationed in Iola will be moved to the building about June 30; others are housed in Humboldt and Moran.
Works’ reluctance to approve the expenditure came from his thought that…
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