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Volusia County Government takes over EVAC to give them government sovereign immunity.

Shortly after the county's take over - EVAC experienced a 45 minute delay in their response to a sports injury of a child.

Will the county ensure that EVAC provides better service, or just allow them to continue as before, but with less liability?

Updated
October 18, 2011

"Whenever you have an efficient government, you have a dictatorship"- Harry S. Truman

On October 1, 2011, Volusia County Government took over the county's ambulance service (EVAC). One of the main reasons that the county stated in making EVAC an official government division within the Volusia County Department of Public Protection, was to give EVAC the protection of sovereign immunity (limits lawsuit liability).

EVAC recently settled a lawsuit last year, for $5 million, involving a woman who sued for injuries her child suffered when he was born prematurely on the way to an Orlando hospital.

Earlier this month (October 2011) EVAC had yet another "glitch" in their ability to provide timely emergency service. During a Pop Warner football game, at the Ormond Beach Sports Complex, a member of a Daytona Beach junior midget team suffered a neck injury.

Apparently, due to a mapping program glitch, EVAC's arrival was delayed by 45 minutes.

VolusiaExposed.Com has requested the public records available on this incident, to include the emails and EVAC records mentioned in the above media article.

VolusiaExposed will post these public records, if and when they are made available by Volusia County

EDITOR'S NOTE: Recently, Volusia County experienced a payroll snafu. During the final payroll cycle in September 2011, somehow, a different year's payroll was deposited in Volusia County employees' private banking accounts. This error caused all current county employees to be paid an incorrect amount and further caused former employees to receive payroll payments. Initally, Volusia County officials advised VolusiaExposed.Com that the error was an external error by an outside vendor / contractor. When VolusiaExposed requested the name of the vendor/contractor, Volusia County officials (County Spokeman, Dave Byron) only then admitted to the mistake - that Volusia has no vendor/contractor invovled in county payroll, that the mistake was an internal mistake by the County IT department. We wonder, was this 45 minute delay really caused by a "mapping program" glitch or can this delay (and others) be connected to internal problems within county government and EVAC?