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THURSDAY, SEPT. 3, 1970
THIS IS WHAT THE COUNTRY COMMISSIONERS THINK OF YOU!
Think of
An Emergency
The Could
Claim Your
Mother's or
Father's
Life or
Yours!
$25,000 Deleted
Wakulla Slashes Ambulance Funds
CRAWFORDVILLE-
Wakulla County Commission has reversed itself and removed $25,500 from the proposed budget for ambulance service leaving a total of only $6,000 of the original $31,500 placed in the tentative budget for the operation of the service by the Sheriff Department of Wakulla County.
Commissioner Hugh McCallister, made the motion for the reduction, Commissioner J.D. Turner seconding the motion. It carried with no dissenting votes.
The new budget approved by the board was 32 days overdued in the State Comptroller's where it is required to be filed by law, August 1.
The ambulance was turned over to Sheriff W.R. Taff at the County Commission meeting July 2 to be put into service and oeprated.
Although $88,904 was budgeted for the Sheriff's office for Poluce protection of the county no funds were udgeted for community fire protection throughout the county by the commission at their Wednesday meeting.
Outer business concluded by the board included the purchase of a drag line at an estimated cost of $39,452.02, according to Clerk Moody Pearce.
They Let Your
House Burn
Insurance Rates
Go Up Or Do
Not Exist!
The County Commission Board
Needs Cleaning NOT White Washing
Let Nothing Stop You From Voting
It's Your Country Not Theirs!
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Tallahassee Democrat
THURSDAY, SEPT. 3, 1970
THIS IS WHAT THE COUNTRY COMMISSIONERS THINK OF YOU!
Think of
An Emergency
The Could
Claim Your
Mother's or
Father's
Life or
Yours!
$25,000 Deleted
Wakulla Slashes Ambulance Funds
CRAWFORDVILLE-
Wakulla County Commission has reversed itself and removed $25,500 from the proposed budget for ambulance service leaving a total of only $6,000 of the original $31,500 placed in the tentative budget for the operation of the service by the Sheriff Department of Wakulla County.
Commissioner Hugh McCallister, made the motion for the reduction, Commissioner J.D. Turner seconding the motion. It carried with no dissenting votes.
The new budget approved by the board was 32 days overdued in the State Comptroller's where it is required to be filed by law, August 1.
The ambulance was turned over to Sheriff W.R. Taff at the County Commission meeting July 2 to be put into service and oeprated.
Although $88,904 was budgeted for the Sheriff's office for Poluce protection of the county no funds were udgeted for community fire protection throughout the county by the commission at their Wednesday meeting.
Outer business concluded by the board included the purchase of a drag line at an estimated cost of $39,452.02, according to Clerk Moody Pearce.
They Let Your
House Burn
Insurance Rates
Go Up Or Do
Not Exist!
The County Commission Board
Needs Cleaning NOT White Washing
Let Nothing Stop You From Voting
It's Your Country Not Theirs!
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Flier decrying cuts to ambulance funding in Wakulla County, 1970. 1970. State Archives of Florida, Florida Memory. <https://www.floridamemory.com/items/show/297337>, accessed 7 January 2025.
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Flier decrying cuts to ambulance funding in Wakulla County, 1970. 1970. State Archives of Florida, Florida Memory. Accessed 7 Jan. 2025.<https://www.floridamemory.com/items/show/297337>