Repair of damage at the Ellsworth EMS building caused by water leaking into the building will not be paid by the county’s insurance carrier, KCAMP. That was the news Ellsworth County commissioners received Monday during their weekly meeting. EMS director Jeremiah Brown said he has been told the water is coming into the building from between the brick and the wall. Commissioner Kermit Rush asked Brown to get bids to repair the leak. In other business:

• Retired district judge Ron Svaty said the Ellsworth County Historical Society wants to set up an old law office display at the Hodgden House Museum. He asked if the eight-foot-long standup desk he once used that is now in storage at the EMS building could be donated to the historical society. “Have at it,” Rush said. Later on, Svaty returned to the meeting to inform commissioners he had been told by Peggy Svaty, district court clerk, the desk had been sold.

• Andrew Bair, chief executive officer of Ellsworth County Medical Center, said he was exited to have a new chief financial officer at the hospital. Steve Burkhouse started his duties recently and is making the financial picture simple, Bair noted. “I think we’re doing well financially,” he said. Bair said he is working to stabilize physician compensation and hopes to have something rolled out by December. Bair said he has been asked to be a part of preliminary discussions centering around interest for a community center. The City of Ellsworth and the Ellsworth American Legion are also part of the conversation along with the VFW and Ministerial Alliance. Bair said because Ellsworth is centrally located, it can probably attract some conventions and thereby increase revenue coming to town. Bair said ECMC was down for 12 hours last week because workers preparing to install two new generators at the hospital drilled down into the hospital’s main power supply with a backhoe. He said ECMC could do x-rays with a portable machine, but could not do any diagnostics or lab work. “No one was hurt,” he said, adding it was a major inconvenience for patients and staff.