WETMORE, Colo. (KKTV) — About 600 homes in the Wetmore area of Custer County could be without local ambulance service beginning January 1 after voters rejected a ballot measure that would have increased property taxes to fund emergency medical services.
Custer County voters in the Wetmore area rejected ballot issue 6A, which would have brought the area into the West Custer County Hospital District. Property owners within the district currently pay a mill levy of 7.9 mills to help fund emergency medical services. If approved, Wetmore-area property owners would have also been subject to that tax.
Currently, the district provides donated EMS response to the Wetmore area. That arrangement is set to end January 1…