Council reviewing draft of proposed downtown vision plan; hearing Aug. 23
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The Aurora City Council authorized the lease/purchase of a new ambulance unit and reviewed a rough draft of a 28-page report outlining a plan to enhance the downtown area during its July 12 meeting.
The Aurora City Council authorized the lease/purchase of a new ambulance unit and reviewed a rough draft of a 28-page report outlining a plan to enhance the downtown area during its July 12 meeting.
City Administrator Rick Melcher informed the council that ambulance chassis are in short supply nationwide, thus ordering a new unit can be a lengthy process taking two to three years. Based on the monthly call totals and age of some of the city’s ambulances, he recommended that a new unit be ordered now.
“If we were to approve the lease/purchase of an ambulance we’d be lucky to get it by September of 2024 and it would more likely be in 2025,” he told the council. “So it may be in our best interest to consider the lease/purchase of one now so we can get it on the track of being built and get it before the one we’ll trade for is 10 years old.”
Now into its fourth year of operating its own ambulance service, the city is seeing steady call numbers, particularly in the request for transfers.
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