TOWER- The Tower Area Ambulance Service (TAAS)had a total of 524 runs in 2023, which included 486 911-calls and 38 non-emergency transfers. This was comparable to the call numbers in 2021 with 489 …
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CITY OF TOWER
Ambulance service members concerned with new business plan proposal Posted
Marshall Helmberger
TOWER Council members had billed Monday’s special meeting with the city’s ambulance staff as a listening session, and they got an earful from members who were concerned by a new business plan that laid out possible changes to the service’s current pay structure for its on-call staff.
The proposed change of most concern to ambulance personnel was one of three scenarios, drafted with assistance from Betsy Olivanti, of the Northeast Small Business Development Center, which called for full-time paid on-call staffing, but at a lower hourly rate of pay than at present. Council member Dave Setterberg had also proposed a fourth scenario for consideration as part of the business planning effort.