Photo: A Rensselaerville ambulance tradition

The Enterprise — Marcello Iaia

Revenue recovery: Brenda Wood, left, treasurer of the Rensselaerville ambulance squad, shakes hands on Feb. 12 with Supervisor Valerie Lounsbury, giving a check for $42,000 to the town in the spirit of offsetting the cost of the separate, county-wide ambulance service borne by taxpayers. The money comes from insurance payments to the volunteer ambulance, minus the cost of third-party billing. With an overall budget of just over $50,000, the Rensselaerville ambulance gets $25,000 from the town in the 2015 budget. "We try to help the taxpayers in the town," Wood said of why the check was written, as it has been each of several years before. "We don't do our volunteer work to make a profit. We try to operate our organization within our means."