Adams County Board

Please allow me to be a little repetitive with my remarks this week, but I feel I must do so. Months ago I discussed my feelings on where the Adams County Ambulances in Quincy should be housed and my thought process has not changed at all.

Downtown Quincy will be the location for a new Adams County Jail.

Recently, the Adams County Ambulance received word from Blessing Hospital that they will need to vacate their main location at Blessing 14th Street facility. This comes as no surprise since Blessing has little by little phased out its operations from that facility over the past several months.

Whether you agree with the new budget cuts or not, the City of Quincy is between a rock and a hard place. The $2-Million revenue stream from the State of Illinois is all but gone and the city needs to find ways to offset that loss. That is not an easy task. So it is time to come up with some creative thinking.