were anyone of you ever on the ambulance squad when it was strictly volunteer???....have anyone of you given up your week-ends to wait for a call and that
is when there also was mutual aid......the ambulance service (unpaid volunteers) managed to get the job done.....so stop about this issue of time
to get to site...
REMS employees don't get paid? I did not know that.
like I said....everyone is lining up their bishops for the ACA change....everyone wants a piece of the $$$ and the consolidation reward makes some wolves and some vultures out of everyone...
we can all label the politicians with the proper animal
...you are a product of your environment, your environment is a product of your priorities, your priorities are a product of you......
The replacement of morality and conscience with law produces a deadly paradox.
STOP BEING GOOD DEMOCRATS---STOP BEING GOOD REPUBLICANS--START BEING GOOD AMERICANS
ALL Ambulance services will be consolidated due to obamacare.
When that happens.....and it will.......ONE needs to be in charge. It WILL be Mohawk.
They run a good business and they are on, if not head, every ambulance/safety program in the state.
It's just a matter of time.
When the INSANE are running the ASYLUM In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
“How fortunate for those in power that people never think.” Adolph Hitler
BT....you got your point across...but until that happens...let the residents have what they want...
or maybe you are the CEO of Mohawk....
thanks RYANKS....you know the score.....goes to show you....all the junk from times ago from this Town government is right in the forefront...but when it
comes to facts from years ago and how it was for the volunteers.....these peeps know nothing...no money no praise....just satisfaction from the residents..
and that's all that needs to be recognized.....AMEN
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"For this is what America is all about. It is the uncrossed desert and the unclimbed ridge. It is the star that is not reached and the harvest that is sleeping in the unplowed ground." Lyndon Baines Johnson
It's ALL gonna be Mohawk. That is what your consolidation gets ya! ENJOY!
When the INSANE are running the ASYLUM In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
“How fortunate for those in power that people never think.” Adolph Hitler
It's ALL gonna be Mohawk. That is what your consolidation gets ya! ENJOY!
Nah -- R.E.M.S. will survive because they do a great job and they have a lot of community support.
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"For this is what America is all about. It is the uncrossed desert and the unclimbed ridge. It is the star that is not reached and the harvest that is sleeping in the unplowed ground." Lyndon Baines Johnson
Nah -- R.E.M.S. will survive because they do a great job and they have a lot of community support.
All intelligent people know that Dv is blind to the truth.
Optimists close their eyes and pretend problems are non existent. Better to have open eyes, see the truths, acknowledge the negatives, and speak up for the people rather than the politicos and their rich cronies.
found this little tid bit on facebook......................
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Rotterdam supervisor, EMS company trade accusations Friday, April 11, 2014 By Justin Mason (Contact) Gazette Reporter
ROTTERDAM — Town Supervisor Harry Buffardi is threatening to remove Rotterdam Emergency Medical Services Inc. as the town’s ambulance provider for not signing a contract, but the not-for-profit company claims in its defense that he drastically revised the contract from the original draft.
In a three-page letter sent to Nancy Casso, president of REMS’ board of directors, Buffardi accused the company of failing to execute a contract the town mailed “months ago” with no response. Absent this contract, he said, the town can move to rescind the board’s narrow approval late last year.
“The award of emergency medical services work in the town was conditional on the execution of a written contract with the town of Rotterdam,” he wrote in the letter, dated March 28. “Without a written contract, the town may revoke or rescind this award.”
Buffardi, who voted against awarding the contract to REMS in December, accused the ambulance provider of failing to have the proper staffing as outlined in the town’s original requests for proposal; not providing documentation showing the ambulances are equipped with GPS navigation systems; and failing to produce a monthly report of the company’s activity.
He also charges REMS hasn’t produced proof of adequate insurance and hasn’t forwarded about $5,000 in payments owed to Rotterdam for work done by the now-defunct town-funded paramedic service last year.
Dean Romano, a member of REMS’ board of directors, said Buffardi’s accusations are either misguided or untrue. He said the company sent a contract to the town in January that was identical to the one included in the proposal accepted by the town board, but the town never signed it.
Instead, Romano said, the town mailed a new contract back to REMS that drastically altered the terms of their agreement. Among other things, he said, the town inserted requirements for additional reporting, more tracking of the ambulances and disclosure of employee drug and alcohol tests.
“It was completely unacceptable and partially illegal,” Romano said of the contract. “I don’t know why they didn’t sign the contract we provided.”
He said as of this week, REMS has paid the town in full for everything it was owed. He said the last payments to the town were late, but only because the company lost $75,000 after the Buffardi administration ordered town dispatchers to stop sending REMS ambulances to calls last year.
“We were waiting for our cash flow to be restored,” he said.
Buffardi was joined by Deputy Supervisor Wayne Calder in voting against awarding the contract to REMS in December. Both supported giving the contract to Mohawk Ambulance, a for-profit company that has courted the town for more than a decade.
The town provides no funding to REMS. Likewise, the town’s request for proposals did not stipulate payments to the town and the proposal submitted by REMS did not offer any.
Romano doesn’t want the relationship between REMS and the Buffardi administration to further sour. Yet he believes the supervisor is searching for any reason he can find to void the contract.
When the INSANE are running the ASYLUM In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
“How fortunate for those in power that people never think.” Adolph Hitler
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