This email, above, was circulated to board members at this morning's regular BCC meeting. I had heard of its existence, anecdotally, but had not seen it until today.
The email is deeply troubling on multiple levels and the reasons behind this email being sent were not made clear during the meeting this morning--although several folks came up to the podium in attempts to explain what they thought this meant or what they think the sender meant.
In a nutshell--so far as I understand it--when an EMS unit is in the process of dropping a patient off at the hospital, often dispatch will assign that unit the next call---in efforts to improve efficiency and let that crew know there is a call waiting and therefore once the current patient is safely and properly handed off to the hospital--they need to expeditiously roll to the next call. Nothing wrong with that, that is called good and rapid service to our citizens when emergencies happen.
And so I think dispatch is doing exactly what they should be doing--- and to argue against efficiency in order to "show a delay and a need for more trucks." This is troubling and I am glad that (then) PS Director Weaver and current Administrator Weaver shot that idea from the union president down.
In all fairness, Mr. Jenkins did send a response to all commissioners this afternoon after this whole thing erupted like a volcano. Here is his response to the commissioners....
