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Written by David M. Scapicchio, Mayor
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Sunday, 14 February 2010 |
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Township of Mt. Olive
OFFICE OF THE MAYOR
DAVID M. SCAPICCHIO
Mailing Address: Physical Address:
P0 Box 450 204 Flanders-Drakestown Road
Budd Lake, NJ 07828 Budd Lake, NJ 07828
Phone: (973) 691-0900 www.mountolivetownship.com
Dear Editor: February 14, 2010 On October 4, 2007 Councilman and active Flanders EMS Volunteer Jim Buell sent an alarming email outlining defects within the MO EMS to former Chief of Police Ed Katona concluding, “The town has no choice but to look at the option of paid EMS.” The impetus for Buell’s letter was to seek advice and eventual support of the Mount Olive Police Department in an attempt to press for paid ambulance service(s).
The detailed information provided by Buell drew immediate attention from my administration and in response, the council formed the Mount Olive Public Safety Committee which consists of one representative from each emergency organization to examine and remedy defects within the current system. In the end, it was agreed that the MO EMS needed help meeting the needs of our community. Mount Olive entered into a contract with Atlantic Healthcare to respond from 5am-5pm on weekdays only.
All appeared to be going well. The volunteers received the much needed relief while the residents received quality emergency medical attention.
However, I was caught totally off guard when I received a $30,000 budget increase request last December from one of our EMS organizations since we not only provided a 70 hour per week reduction for our volunteers, but such an increase in these economic times appeared unreasonable. The request prompted a reexamination of our emergency services and since we had acquired a six month baseline to compare the response time between paid and volunteer services I had requested the Mount Olive Police Department to conduct a comparison study. The overall conclusion supported the paid services responded 100% faster than volunteers services.
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Last Updated ( Sunday, 14 February 2010 )
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Mt Olive EMS Launches Petition |
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Written by WebMaster
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Thursday, 28 January 2010 |
January 27, 2010The Mount Olive EMS Squads have launched a petition from the Committee of Petitioners consisting of Kevin Dolan-Flanders, Barbara Swasey,- Budd Lake, Andrew Forst-Budd Lake, Phylis Gentile-Budd Lake and Kenneth Taylor-Flanders. The committee will be asking registered voters in Mount Olive to sign a petition that will to put a referendum to allow the public to vote on the question that would allow the EMS squads to be named as the providers of services Read the full Petition Here People circulating the petitions will be around the township at various locations – you may call 973-691-0900 ext 7382 for information of where you can go to sign a petition or details on becoming a petition circulator for those interested. According to a spokesperson for the EMS’s the article in the Star Ledger released by the township on January 27, claiming that a compromise has been reached - in not true. The council has ignored the requests by township residents to create a committee to resolve the issues. For this reason the petition was created that will force the township to place before the public a referendum in an election. Listen to the full council meeting from January 19th
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Last Updated ( Tuesday, 02 February 2010 )
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Budd Lake EMS Open Letter to the Mayor |
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Written by Carol O'Neill
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Wednesday, 27 January 2010 |
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Mr Mayor, Thank you for sharing with me the "comparative analysis of response times" grid. Listed below are my observations with this data collection. 1. First grid "Volunteer Ambulance Service" data collected between the dates of Nov, 2008 thru May 2009 is data that is irrelevant. This was the time period that we admitted there was a daytime volunteer problem, in which we all agreed to bring in a day time paid service. 2. Second grid "Volunteer Ambulance Service" data collected between the dates of June, 2009 thru Dec 2009 needs to be recollected and re-evaluated. To collect the original dispatch time utilizing the CAD system was the right data point. However, the data source from First Responder sign on through the remainder of the call should be collected through time stamped recorded lines. The reasoning for this in Scenario to help explain to you the flow of a call: SCENARIO:911 is called in to Mount Olive dispatch; Dispatcher enters information into CAD while still on 911 call with resident (CAD clock starts); Dispatcher hangs up with resident and dispatches police unit and then activates tones to dispatch emergency units; other phone calls come while township units sign on (time stamped on recorded line but not in CAD since dispatcher is on either phone or radio multi tasking); Township units go in service and/or on scene (dispatcher plays catch-up with CAD system). As you can see by the above scenario, there are multiple moving parts within a 911 call. Imagine, which often happens, multiple 911 calls at once. |
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