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Old 09-11-2023, 01:23 AM
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That explains a lot, thanks Don. The lesson here is that people need to be a lot more careful about what they demand. Everyone wants better services, but at what cost? Stuff doesn’t magically pay for itself.
If someone, their wife/husband, their neighbor, their friend has to wait 30 or 40 minutes for the AMR ambulance, and doesn’t survive, the extra $200 for the ambulances to operate within the fire department and show up within 5 minutes is a bargain.

Anyone who thought moving the ambulances from a for profit (who set staffing to make a profit), thus the 40 minute wait times, was NOT going to be substantially more expensive was crazy.

The fire department (and county) need to levy taxes to NOT lose money, BUT their primary driver is constituent service, not profit.