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GC Ambulance compensation corrected, clarified
GLENWOOD CITY — In the Glenwood City Council story that appeared at the top of page 14 in last week’s (December 20) issue of the Tribune Press Reporter, the compensation for ambulance personnel was incorrectly stated.
Ambulance co-director Wendy Werner, who discussed the new compensation package at the meeting, was also misidentified in the article. The Tribune Press Reporter apologizes to Werner for the error.
The new ambulance compensation package, which was approved October 1, raised the amounts paid to Emergency Medical Technicians (EMTs), Emergency Medical Responders (EMRs) and drivers on the Glenwood City Ambulance Service.
Under the new pay schedule, EMTs will earn $3.50 per hour while on standby and $40 per hour during runs. EMRs will get $3 per hour for standby and $40 per hour for runs. Ambulance drivers will receive $2.75 per hour while on standby and $30 per hour for runs. A normal standby shift is 12 hours (6 am to 6 pm and 6 pm to 6 am).
If a call is an on-scene response for evaluation and care only with no transport required, all three classifications of personnel will be paid at their regular hourly run rate.
Any extra EMTS or EMRs that are required to help on scene but are not part of the transport will receive $20 per hour.
Holiday standby pay was set at $5.25 per hour for EMTs and $4.50 per hour for EMRs and drivers. Holidays will include both am and pm shifts for New Year’s Eve, New Year’s Day, Easter, Memorial Day, July 4th, Labor Day, Thanksgiving, Christmas Eve and Christmas Day.
In addition, personnel will be compensated $20 each when a run is cancelled while the ambulance is en route and for staging purposes only.
Ambulance personnel will also receive $20 for monthly meetings, training sessions and committee meetings, and directors will get $20 for each director and county agency meeting plus mileage compensation if applicable.
Extra events such as football games and the rodeo, to mention a few, will be paid at $20 per event.
Personnel that wash/maintain the service’s vehicles will also receive a $15 stipend for each occurrence.
Each co-director’s pay was set at $4,000 annually.
The City offices for Glenwood City are now located in the new Municipal Building on West Oak Street. It was learned by members of the City Council that the offices of City Clerk/Treasurer where moved from the former City Hall just a block east of the new location, on Monday and Tuesday.
The new $2.3 million dollar Municipal building is in the final stages of completion. The new building will house the City Offices, the Library, Community Center, and police station. The police moved into their new quarters last week, but Mayor John Larson noted that the Library and Community Center would not be ready until next month.
During the Council’s regular monthly meeting of December 20th, council members debated on how to sign the outside of the new Municipal Building.
Council member Steve Lee indicated that he was not in favor of an electronic sign with Mayor Larson asking all the members of the council if they wanted an electronic sign or letters on the building.
The council had received two bids for the signage and accepted the lowest bid from Signart of Eau Claire. The council debated where to install letters on the building and installing a double-sided Electronic Message Center. After some discussion the council voted 5 to 1 to just go with the Electronic Message Center at a cost of $32,148. Council member Steve Lee voted against buying the electronic sign.
Ambulance Pay
Ambulance personnel pay was a subject that was held over from the November meeting of the Council. Wendy Slayton, the co-director of the ambulance discussed the matter with the council. A couple of items that were discussed were the pay increase for drivers to $20.00 an hour, pay for washing the ambulance and pay to the director for writing grants. EMT’s on the service get $30.00 an hour.
Carlton DeWitt, editor of the Tribune Press Reporter reminded members of the council that EMTs are paid $30.00 an hour, but firefighters received less than half that amount.
At present, the director is paid $500 annually for writing grants plus a bonus of ten percent on grants received. In his motion to accept the new pay schedule, Council member Austin Sandow moved to drop the ten percent figure, but accept the rest of the proposal. The council voted four to one to approve the agreement.
Slayton also reported that the service will have three new people starting the EMT classes in January.
Library Director Rochel Karlson reported that the library had over 500 people visiting the library last month, with 113 using the computers and that 20 people were at the library for the book signing by author Pamela Edwards, and she told the council they had about 200 people for their annual Christmas on Pine Street.
The Council also set a fee of one hundred dollars, plus deposit of fifty dollars for use of the Community Center for city residents and a $200 for non-residents.
The council approved the following people for election inspectors for the next two years. They are: Barb Dillow, Jill Logghe, and Bill Wold as Chief Inspectors. Others include Kimberly A. Moe, Laura Moats, Ronnie Gilbertson, Linda Krizan, Charlotte Larson, Karen Marlette, Karen Peterson, Ken Peterson, Linda Sittlow, and Jennifer Flanders.
