The Greene County Board of Supervisors met Thursday.

During open forum, County Attorney Thomas Laehn addressed ongoing discussions of 28E agreements between the County and the City of Jefferson. He said a 1972 28E agreement for the law enforcement center stipulated a 60/40 split where the County was paying 60-percent of the expenses of the building and the City was paying 40-percent. However, Laehn found an amendment that hadn’t been executed to change the amounts to 70/30, where the County pays 70-percent, which is what it is currently. Laehn believes somewhere down the line, the payment shifted without the agreement being executed. Laehn said City Attorney Bob Schwartzkorpf told him the City is agreeable to paying the 60/40 split. The other 28E agreement was about the City paying for a dispatcher. Currently, there are services that a county sheriff’s dispatcher is doing for the city’s police department, reporting on non-emergency and emergency services. According to state code, Laehn said the County is required to provide emergency services to the cities, but not non-emergency services. The Sheriff’s office is proposing the City pay a dispatcher wage for those services. Laehn wants to get all parties together for a meeting to come to a resolution on both agreements. The Supervisors agreed to be apart of that meeting.

The Board then approved a Verizon land lease agreement and a memorandum of the land lease agreement with the law enforcement center as presented. The agreement would allow Verizon to not only install a new cell tower for communication upgrades at Verizon’s expense, but they also want to install two generators at their expense as well.

The Board also approved the ambulance employee wage rates. The rates include $58,000 for the director, a range of wages for full-time emergency medical technician (EMT) between $32,000 and $38,000 (based on years of experience), and full-time paramedics (PM) and/or registered nurses (RN) from $42,000 to $48,000 (based on years of experience). Wage rates were also approved for part-time EMTs of $17 per hour and PM or RN of $20 per hour. For an on-call individual, the rate is $4 per hour and for a driver to do transports is $10 per hour.

The meeting then ended in a budget workshop. The Board decided to not give any increases to entities in the discretionary budget, except for those that are based on per-capita. However, the Board decided to pay $5,000 out of Louis Dreyfus funds to Greene County Chamber and Tourism for a one-year membership. The Board said they wanted to see results the following year.