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Jones County officials and community members gathered on Wednesday for the groundbreaking ceremony of a new Emergency Medical Services (EMS) substation in Pollocksville. The new facility aims to enhance emergency response times and expand EMS coverage across the county's eastern regions.
The Jones County Board of Commissioners approved the county manager’s recommendation of the 2022-2023 fiscal year budget. Changes include lowering the tax rate and county employees getting a pay raise.
The Jones County Commissioners lowered the tax rate by two cents in the 2021-2022 Jones County budget. The budget included a county-wide cost of living adjustment (COLA) increase of 2.5%. Jones County Commissioners were excluded from the first COLA increase in at least four years. Jones County Commissioner April Aycock felt as if the pandemic opened a lot of eyes with health care in Jones County. “We are extremely limited with our medical services in the county,” said Aycock. “So by the health department being expanded to five days a week, it provides more accessibility to our county.”
Volunteer fire departments from around Jones County, the Jones County Sheriff’s Office, the Maysville Police Department and local officials participated in a surprise staff appreciation for Carolina East Internal Medicine and Brook Stone Living Center nursing home.
