The Lisbon-Mount Vernon Ambulance Service is completing a feasibility study about improvements to or relocation of a new ambulance garage.
LMVAS director Jacob Lindauer said the original plan was to look at a phased addition to the current ambulance shed, but as they have been comparing costs for improvements or building a more efficient building, the costs are roughly the same, possibly less.
The study is a way for the service to explore the need for those improvements, and build a facility that will continue to serve this community for the next 30 years.
Council members Mike Williams and Nathan Smith asked if there has been consideration on which community the new building would move if a new location is picked. Lindauer said from a response time for the service, the optimal location that the feasibility study identified was roughly a quarter mile north of the ambulance’s current location on the border between Mount Vernon and Lisbon.
“We are looking at spaces in that central location between Mount Vernon and Lisbon if we are to relocate, nothing on the far fringes of either community,” Lindauer said. “And the most it may impact our response time in the communities is between half a minute to a minute as it may takes volunteers a little bit more drive time to reach the new location.”
Lindauer said the biggest lag for response time is volunteers getting to the building and ambulances currently.
The feasibility study questionnaire is located on the Lisbon-Mount Vernon Ambulance Facebook page and takes less than five minutes to complete.