By Benjamin Cox on May 5, 2021 at 5:28pm The Winchester EMS will have to wait a bit longer on the verdict for a proposed service area for the county. The Scott County Commissioners did not take up a motion to create the service area at their meeting yesterday afternoon. Commissioner Weldon Fearneyhough made a motion to create the service area after a lengthy question and answer between representatives of the EMS, the Commissioners, and members of the public. Fearneyhough’s motion died for a lack of a second. Winchester EMS volunteer Molly Taylor says that the service’s back is up against the wall both with finances and people: “It’s mostly our staffing issues. We have about 4 members that are currently going on calls. As of [Sunday], we had 3 calls basically at one time so all three of our rigs were out at the same time. Especially on a weekend like that, we just don’t have the staffing so we are at the point now where, the president of our EMS is looking to step down. He’s been at it a long time. He’s ready to kind of retire, so that’s one less person. We are at the point where we just can’t financially pay for full time staffing out there without the county going further with something, whether that be the Special Service Area or if they have other options, which they haven’t been able to tell us any other options at this point.”