Goldsboro News Argus
The Duplin County Board of Commissioners was busy writing checks again Monday morning, but members decided to hold off on signing the biggest one — paychecks for county emergency medical personnel — until at least February.
Speaking at only his third commission meeting, new county emergency medical services director Brian Pearce was forced to be the bearer of bad news — telling the commissioners that there is not enough money in the budget to pay the county’s paramedics.
When county officials were making their projections for the 2006-07 budget, Pearce said, they neglected to take into account the fact that paramedics are not 40-hour-a-week employees. Rather, they almost always work 48-hour weeks. ...
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