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While three newly elected Sumter County commissioners were fighting to push through a tax increase on new business, the county was already collecting millions of dollars more than expected in that area.
[Additionally], [t]he commission approved beginning the process of hiring 22 new employees to staff the county’s Emergency Communications Center. The commission on July 27 approved the county assuming control of operating the dispatch center for ambulance and fire services beginning Oct. 1 as its contract with American Medical Response ends. The county will begin hiring employees to start training as early as Sept. 7…
