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Reason it was mostly medical calls, and that was the person in every instance that had to deal with the situation. Constantly, and i just see that it clearly from my perspective, it seems like it is something that we should begin to look at. And whether, and analyze, and determine whether or not that is a good route for the department to take. Because, it definitely as you know, from your experience, i mean the need is definitely out there, and it may cost money on the front end, but could it be a real cost savings on the back end, and could it be, you know, a savings of efficiency, on the back end . To be able to address this with the department . Right. And supervisor, breed, and i am going to ask him to step in for the next two items and he can certainly weigh in more appropriate than me, but as a certified emergency medical tech nifm i know that the fields that we are trained in are helpful in the field and we have nine receiving hospitals unlike more rural areas, we are able to ge
Period after 2008, the city also worked closely with our labor partners to overhaul the citys pension system, and the citys retiree, health investing and benefit system. Both measures resulted in employees, in the vast majority of employees contributing something towards additionally towards the pension obligations and also start to paying into the Retiree Trust Fund and so as we entered into these negotiations, we certainly had some pent up demand and we tried to reconcile what the expectations were with the realities of having a healthy city budget but not a limitless one and so we believe that we reached a very fair agreement, the details of the wage package are as follows, effective october of this coming of 2014, the 3 percent general increase, and effective on october 2015, three, and one quarter percent, and then in the third year, of our three year deal, a wage increase which is based largely on how or what the rate of inflation is and so if we continued to be in good times it
30 to 40,000 dollars per employee to have fully cross trained workforce. And so that would be one of our main objections or concerns. But do you think that ultimately there could be a cost savings long term with the department in general . I think, that to the requirement to have all of the new hires being trained as a paramedic is something that is not necessary in terms of being able to meet or appropriately staffed and once being able to meet our response requirements and so forth, there are initial costs and ten there are additional training costs with having all paramedics in the department and most urban departments do not and they have a percentage whether it is one quarter, or you know, onethird, to be at an advanced life support level of training. Okay. So, i think that we are going to explore this particular issue a little bit more. But i guess that the question that i have is specifically i know that there are firefighter ems or paramedics in this station, and out of the ent
Able to meet or appropriately staffed and once being able to meet our response requirements and so forth, there are initial costs and ten there are additional training costs with having all paramedics in the department and most urban departments do not and they have a percentage whether it is one quarter, or you know, onethird, to be at an advanced life support level of training. Okay. So, i think that we are going to explore this particular issue a little bit more. But i guess that the question that i have is specifically i know that there are firefighter ems or paramedics in this station, and out of the entire, i guess, Suppression Team that are located specifically at stations, what is the percentage of those who are paramedic firefighters . So, we have 43 fire engines that work per day in the city, and at a minimum we will staff 29 of them with paramedics. It is not all, but, 29, but that does not mean that you only have 29 firefighter paramedics, in the department as a whole . No,