Update: Wicomico County and Salisbury receive new fire servi

and e-m-s services — between salisbury and wicomico county. an outside consulting firm — hired to take a look at emergency call information — released their findings tonight at the city council meeting. 47 abc’s dani bozzini reports. track one just over a million dollar discrepancy — for fire and e-m-s services. that’s the number — revealed to city council members — by third party consulting firm — tridata — after months of research. 21:06:25 its about 1.08 million dollars and thats the delta the difference between what is paid and what should be and thats the recommendation that is being made 21:06:35 track two salisbury’s fire department provides e-m-s and fire services — for the city and wicomico county. it’s a relationship which has been in place for decades. currently — the county pays 9-hundred and 56-thousand dollars a year for those services. but in 2015 — under mayor jim ireton’s administration — this was all called into question. the city claims the discrepancy is closer to 2-point-2 million dollars. tridata looked through 2015 data from the 911 center — as well as county and city budgets to calculate their figures. the firm found that for each e-m-s call — the county did not pay 1-hundred and 93 dollars. for each fire call — it was a 2-hundred and 88 dollar discrepancy. and with the city of salisbury responding to more than 3-thousand ems calls — and over one thousand fire calls — that’s how they calculated the county underpaid by more than one million dollars. councilman jim ireton asked many questions — clearly dissatisfied with the figures. 20:52:39 those numbers are a start i want to say that and i appreciate you giving us a start and reaffirmed what we knew 18 months ago and 18 years ago that there is an inequality in the service in the payment of service 20:53:57 track three the consulting firm had 10 recommendations for the city and county moving forward. one stuck out to mayor jake day. 21:07:07 we have to now finalize the framework for the remainder of negiotitations and what i think that looks like is what was recommended which is a mediation so theres still a third party at the table its not just direct one to one on negiotiations although i would be fine with that 21:07:20 track four wicomico county executive — bob culver — tells 47 abc that right now — the county will be reviewing this information — and the recommendations given. dani bozzini, 47 abc it’s important to note — tridata mentioned at tonight’s city council meeting that they were not provided all the data needed for their analysis — due to the fact that the 9-1-1 call center — didn’t have the complete list of data they asked for. tridata assures that their numbers are close — but not 1-hundred percent accurate. we’ll have more on that –and the recommendations the firm had for the city and county — up on our website. look for dani’s online report at 47 abc dot com. also out of salisbury this evening… 47 abc was notified — shortly after 8-30