Agreements between the city and county for jointly used services and functions will be on the table for re-examination next week, with the provision of ambulance and rescue services to residents living outside city limits chief among them.

At Friday’s informal meeting of the Warren County Board of Supervisors, the board agreed to meet with the Board of Mayor and Aldermen on the issue at next Friday’s informal meeting after the city said in a letter that the services place an undue financial burden on the city.

In it, the county, under state law, has paid the city $350,000 each fiscal year to provide life support and rescue services to county residents. Trips made by ambulance units for such calls as broken limbs, basic transfers, categorized as &#8220basic life support,” are not paid for in any way by the county.

According to figures compiled by the city, the average cost per run for all categories is $290.88. The figures also show an estimated $338,022.47 that the county has not paid during fiscal year 2005-06.

After the meeting, the county comptroller confirmed no money has been paid, but also that no invoices have been received from the city during that time. That issue was a point of discussion during the meeting.

&#8220You’ve got to have a bill first before you pay anything,” District 5 Supervisor Richard George said.

Also, supervisors have been reluctant during this fiscal year to consider any request to loosen the county purses unless a request is made during budget-setting time in mid-summer.

&#8220If it’s timely with our budget, it should just be void,” District 3 Supervisor Charles Selmon said.

The city board also met on the issue late Thursday, with Mayor Laurence Leyens saying the agreement &#8220needs to be rewritten.”

&#8220We know it’s going to exceed the $350,000 that’s in the contract,” South Ward Alderman Sid Beauman said.

However, following the county’s session, county administrator John Smith said the total amount due has not exceeded that level in three years.

Reached late Friday, Leyens indicated he would be open to extending the current agreement past its September expiration date.

Leyens left open the possibility of privatizing the basic life support and transfer functions and also expressed reservations about continuing ambulance service in the county.

The $350,000 ceiling on the county’s payments for the ambulance service was raised in 2001 to that level from the $250,000 they paid previously.

North Ward Alderman Michael Mayfield said he thinks the county, for which he worked for as District 2 Supervisor for 10 years, &#8220should pay what is fair.”

&#8220We’re going to meet with them and we’re going to present all the numbers to the county in black and white and make sure all the numbers are broken down,” Mayfield said. The other interlocal agreements are for tax collection, tax redemption and emergency dispatch services.

In those, the city pays the bulk share per year to defray the costs of collection of taxes and the sale of property for nonpayment of property taxes. The city also pays a 65 percent share of dispatch personnel pay.

Supervisors left the boardroom Friday with the idea of putting the county’s participation in public transportation system into the form of an interlocal agreement.

In December, supervisors approved sending $35,000 as their contribution to funding the bus line, scheduled to begin running in May after several delays.