Olympic Ambulance has been warned by the city of Bainbridge Island for illegally operating its ambulance business out of a residential home near Meadowmeer Golf Course.

Bainbridge Island City Spokeswoman Kellie Stickney said the city received a complaint after a resident asked how the company could operate its business out of a residential neighborhood.

Olympic Ambulance has been using single-family home on Killdeer Lane Northeast as its Bainbridge base for the past few weeks.

On Tuesday afternoon, an ambulance could be seen at the home just off of Northeast Koura Road, parked behind a high arborvitae hedge, with an orange power extension cord running from the vehicle into the house. A note on the door asked Olympic workers to take off their shoes when entering the house, and to keep the door shut so a dog wouldn’t get out.

Stickney said Olympic Ambulance has been told to move to a new location.

“Their office is currently located in a residential area, which is not allowed per the [city municipal] code,” Stickney explained.

“Our code compliance officer is working with them to give them some time to relocate,” she said.

The company would be given a “reasonable amount of time” to move to a proper location, Stickney said, probably about 30 days.

“We always try to work things out with folks before we move to the more official level,” she said.

Olympic Ambulance officials were not available for comment Tuesday. Employees referred questions to executive director Kim Droppert, and a worker in the Bremerton office said she was not immediately available.

Stickney said the ambulance that has been stationed in the residential area is not using its siren until it reaches Highway 305.

City officials also said they couldn’t find any record of a business license for the company to operate on Bainbridge.

Olympic Ambulance and its owner, Sequim businessman Bill Littlejohn, made headlines last year after the state Public Disclosure Commission fined Littlejohn $60,000 for violating campaign finance laws. The fine was the 10th largest in the commission’s 42-year history.

An investigation by the PDC, the state agency that serves as a watchdog on campaign financing, found Littlejohn hid the source of cash donations that he made to a committee that was working to defeat a levy request by Clallam County Fire District No. 2.

Littlejohn made donations using the names of seven of his employees, and he admitted to making the contributions in cash so there wouldn’t be a paper trail. He told state investigators he thought the tax levy was a threat to his business and his employees.

The levy was rejected by voters after a contentious campaign where opponents outraised supporters of the measure by a 2-to-1 margin.

Littlejohn’s name was back in the news last week after Rep. Kevin Van De Wege, a 24th District lawmaker from Sequim, introduced a bill that would allow the PDC to recommend felony criminal charges against those who violate state campaign finance laws.

Van De Wege said his bill was prompted by the Littlejohn case.