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Show Pleasant Grove City Council Approves Two Agreements Two different agreements were approved by the Pleasant Pleas-ant Grove City Council in last week's council meeting. One was a resolution authorizing au-thorizing the city to sign an agreement with Qwest Corporation Corpo-ration for a ten foot right-of-way easement to install communications com-munications fiber at property located at 485 West 220 South in Shannon Fields Park. The resolution states that the city desires entering into the right-of-way easement agreement with Qwest, finding find-ing it in the best interest of the citizens of Pleasant Grove City. The right-of-way easement is to install communications fiber. The second resolution approved ap-proved by the council authorizes authoriz-es the mayor to sign a donation agreement with Utah Hospitals and Health Systems Association, Associa-tion, Health Care Education and Research Foundation. This approves a grant for the Pleasant Grove FireEMS for a ST elevation Myocardian Infarction Pre-hospital 12-lead ECG grant. The wording of the agreement agree-ment states that each year over 750,000 Americans will experience expe-rience Acute Myocardial Infarction In-farction and for every minute that passes between the onset of AMI and Primary Percutaneous Percuta-neous Coronary Intervention at a qualified STEMI Receiving Center, survival rates decrease from three percent mortality at 30 minutes from AMI symptoms symp-toms to seven percent at 150 minutes. The grant will enable the local EMTs to reduce mortality mortal-ity in the community by placing plac-ing 12-Lead monitorsdefi-brillators monitorsdefi-brillators in front-line EMT-I an Paramedic Response vehicles. ve-hicles. Funding has been obtained ob-tained through grants and donations to help local EMS Providers and other organizations organi-zations or groups with the one-time purchaseupgrade of a 12-lead ECG monitordefi-brillator. monitordefi-brillator. Pleasant Grove EMS will purchase two new units by a combination of donated hospital hos-pital monies and a Utah State EMS Grant. Both of these approved resolutions take effect immediately. |