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Show Review - Wednesday, November !2, l!Ki - Page :i Ambulance Assoc. wants paramedic prog. The Pleasant Grove City Council Tuesday heard an official request from the Ambulance Association to begin a paramedic training program. Ann Topham, president-elec- t of the Association, and Dave Vickers, First Response Officer, told the city council that if they are going to begin a paramedic training program the application must be sent in to the state by Nov. 14. The council decided that they would discuss the proposal further at the Public Safety Committee meeting this week and make a decision at that time. The Association mentioned the possibility of forming a North Utah County Paramedic group. They cited counties which have joined together to provide paramedic services. Residents have approved a bond election to finance these ser-vices in the counties which are providing the services. The purpose in asking for the paramedic training is so that more advanced medical assistance could be given before the patient arrives at the hospital. Paramedics are trained for more airway management. Ann said that they had had a cardiac case and trauma case in the past two weeks which could have benefited from having more airway management. They explained that the paramedic does what he is told by the doctor at the hospital. He is not playing doctor in the field. They noted that Weber State College has cut back the paramedic training by half and the city needs to get the program underway if they are going to or wait until 1988 or later. The state needs to have a firm committment from the city before they will even accept the ap plication. The state has to approve the application before training can begin. Funding will be sought after the state approves the application. It will cost about $6,000 to train five people as paramedics. It is a six month course, with three months being in the classroom and the other three in the hospital. It is possible that the city could get a grant to pay for part or all of the training. The state requires two paramedics to respond to each call. It does not say they have to arrive in the same vehicle. The First Response person should be a paramedic but he will always have the Rescue Truck in his possession and another paramedic would have to meet him at the scene. Councilman Lloyd Ash said that one of the drawbacks to the paramedic program is the requirement to have two paramedics at the scene. One of the selling points to the First Response program was having a person ready to respond im-mediately, without having to wait for others to arrive. The ambulance must have two EMT's on board before it is legal to make a run. He questioned whether the city needed a paramedic program with the American Fork Hospital being so near. It was mentioned that the cities which need paramedics the most are those that are a long distance from a hospital. For instance, Provo has paramedics and yet they only take three minutes to transport a patient to the hospital. Some communities have a 45 minute transport time to a hospital and without paramedics they do not have the ability to provide advanced airway management. Vickers said that there is now a push to change the state law so that two paramedics do not have to respond to the scene. One paramedic and one EMT would probably be adequate. K.A. Driggs, city Budget and Finance Director, said that he felt uncomfortable with the whole idea. He felt the city might be committing itself to an expense that could mushroom. Mayor David Holdaway said that the real risk financially would be the possible turnover of personnel and having to train more people frequently. The council felt that they could back out before the program ws implemented if they felt the city should not do it right away. In other action, the council held a public hearing on a request to annex property on State St. east of Proctor Lane. Known as the Smith An-nexation, the area requesting an-nexation comprises about 27.72 acres. There was no public input at the meeting. The council adopted the policy declaration. The resolution to annex will be presented at the next meeting. The council approved a resolution indicating the intention of the city to sell SID 85-- 2 bonds on the Wade Springs improvements. The resolution indicating the intention to sell the bonds gives permission for them to be sold. The council discussed the necessary repairs to the roof of the Old Bell School (Pioneer Museum). Earlier no bids had been received to the building because contractors were concerned about what might be found under the shingles. Since it is a very old building there was concern that the rafters may have begun to deteriorate. The council said that the building definitely is in need of having the roof replaced and asked the city inspector to evaluate this and make a recommendation to the council. Councilman Dale Warburton discussed the fees for sewer and water hookups in the city, saying that a preliminary study shows that the city is on the high end for these rates. He said he assumed that the rates were set where they were for good reason, but thought the matter should be researched so that the city council and Planning Commission could know what those reasons were. The councilman said that this might be one of the factors which has kept the building rate in the city rather low recently. He said he had heard statements to the effect fiat it is too expensive to build in Pleasant Grove. He would like to know if those complaints are valid. Lowering the fees might improve building in the community. He said that some cities use funds from the general fund to help with the sewer and water fees. Pleasant Grove has not done this. The fees are used to maintain lines, make replacements, etc. He said that the city has no other place to get thise funds and cannot afford to subsidize it out of the general fund. Lowering the fees might not be fair, perhaps, to those who have already paid the higher rate over the years. There has been no substantial change in these rates for about 13 years, he said. The council asked Councilman Warburton to study the matter further and present it to the council for discussion. i- - ......W Joyce Poulson, left, is congratulated by K.A. Driggs, Budget and Finance Director, after being named as pleasant Grove's Employee of the Month. poulson honored as PG employee pleasant Grove Mayor David Holdaway surprised Joyce Poulson, city accounts clerk, Tuesday at the City Council meeting by naming her )e November Employee of the Month. Mrs. Poulson was asked to come to Die meeting to report on another ; matter. Instead, they gave her the :; award. c Joyce has worked for the city for 17 years. She runs all the payroll and pays all the city's bills, and "does t this and that," she explained. ,i In presenting her with the honor, Mayor Holdaway said that she was instrumental in getting the city's computerized system going. She has worked in the office longer than any other employee. Mayor Holdaway noted that she is doing a very good job and highly deserves the honor. Joyce and her husband, Ken, live in Pleasant Grove. They have three children and three grandchildren. She likes to sew and play golf in her spare time. "In fact, I like about anything, including sports," Joyce stated. i I Lindon mulls block ! development grant By KALYN SECRETAN 2 Lindon City Council m et Nov. 5 Si with City Consultant Cole Durham jp reviewing the CBDG grant. A sil resolution was passed to assure the 4 provision of low moderate income j. jobs as a requirement of the grant. In order to meet requirements, at a .least six jobs must be created. The H whole theory of opening up the area IC with the sewer going in will create Kt new jobs. In a joint session the UDAG grant Us was reviewed. An amendment was K requested for additional time. It t! was also decided the Mayor, the jj; City Administrator and the jU Chairman of the Redevelopment Agency are all authorized to sign t? the legally binding agreements, jt; At present the legally binding committments have reached 850,000. Some original developers ire undecided, substitute inv-estments will be sought with add-itional time, to bring comm-ittments up to $1,135,000. In reviewing the effect date of Ordinance 146 concerning the Storehouse Market, Storehouse has t,; not made a decision on the site. Hey have not ruled out Lindon so P the effective date has been ex-- ', Wed until Dec. 5. The letter of intent to Orem City hs discussed expressing Lindon's 9jj interest in annexing Geneva if it "pecomes available, continuing 600 South directly through the f Mat harbor to 1600 North in Orem. They must want Orem to know of their intentions, it has been in the city master plan, they h ave no intention of going south, it is an effort to straighten their boun-daries. Lindon would not expect Orem to go to the north. Kent Taylor met with the council . with a presentation to lease the city property on State Street' where the ' vacant clinic is situated. He would like to build a restaur-ant managed by he and his wife. The couple leased and operated the present Rose Ann's Cafe 15-1- 8 years ago and had a good business. He would like the whole strip of property and requests to go ahead as soon as possible. He stated there is quite a demand for a family cafe and feels it would be an asset to the city. The city will discuss the issue and have an appraisal made. The City talked previously of keeping the land for a new city hall. Ray Walker met with the council in an effort to receive approval. The Board of Ad-justments approved his selling lots by description because he donated 25 feet of property to open a street. If the city does not approve sub-standard lots, the lot lines will, be shifted and roadway property canjnot be donated. Ordinance 149 was adopted to comply with Federal Flood In-surance. Builders will be required to have proper elevation. To open your tax-deducti- ble Home Equity Line of Credit, please come prepared to pay the following charges: Origination Fee $0.00 Annual Fee . . $0.00 Title Insurance Fee . . . $0.00 Appraisal Fee . . $0.00 Filing Fee $0.00 Total $0.00 'These charges are postponed until the credit line is accessed and will then be financed as part of the line. On the typical $25,000 Home Equity line of Credit, title insurance, appraisal and filing fees total approximately $359.50. 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