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amount, 25 cents or every dollar, goes to the local governing body for distribution among its several rescue squads. Planning District 9 will receive an estimated $16,821 each year.

Another 22 percent of the money goes into the state’s rescue squad assistance fund for distribution twice a year as direct grants to various EMS agencies with recommendations from the regional councils. The assistance fund has been the real help to rural areas, Rosson says, since the other allocations tend to favor urban areas where more cars are registered.

“Those funds have been tremendously helpful to Rappahannock in the past,” Rosson said of the rescue squad assistance ftind. During the most recent grants distribution, Amissville received $24,000 for a new ambulance and Washington $2,880 for radio equipment. The other recipients in this region were Orange which

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