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Juliann Vachon covers the city of Beaufort and town of Port Royal for The Beaufort Gazette. She is a Louisville, Ky., native and 2008 graduate of the University of Kentucky. She moved to Beaufort in April 2009.
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Hearing between Beaufort, Port Royal and Burton Fire District postponed
The city of Beaufort, Port Royal and Burton Fire District will not meet Monday as scheduled for a hearing with Beaufort County Judge Marvin Dukes regarding disputes over emergency response services.
Both the city and district agreed to postpone the hearing because of an ongoing family medical emergency of one Burton employee essential to the case, said Beaufort city attorney William Harvey.
The hearing has not yet been rescheduled, said Tom Webb, assistant chief of the Burton fire district.
The disputes revolve around emergency services provided by the district to areas annexed into Port Royal after 1995 and into the city of Beaufort after 1999.
The district threatened to end first-response service to those areas on Sept. 1 unless the municipalities negotiated fees paid to the district for services performed there.
The municipalities argue those fees are determined — and have already been paid — according to 1999 “consent orders” agreements.
In August, Judge Dukes ordered the Burton Fire District to continue providing emergency response services to those areas until the hearing — originally scheduled for Monday.
Dukes had also ordered the two parties to undergo mediation, scheduled for Friday. That also was postponed, Beaufort city attorney William Harvey said Thursday.
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