July 23, 2014 at 2:10 p.m.
JEMS to get new chassis (06/22/04)
Faced with the prospect of spending as much as $3,000 to fix the transmission in a county ambulance, Jay County Commissioners have decided to replace rather than repair.
Monday afternoon, the commissioners chose the lowest of three quotes obtained for a heavy duty (1.25 ton) Ford ambulance chassis with a 158-inch wheelbase.
The rear box will be removed from the current Jay Emergency Medical Service ambulance and will be placed on the new chassis.
The 2004 Ford E-450 Ford chassis will be purchased from Life Star Rescue Inc. of Van Wert, Ohio. The cost of $22,995 for the chassis includes a $3,000 credit for trade-in of the county’s current 1999 chassis.
The cost of re-mounting the box — a process that includes painting and other work — will be approximately $36,000, bringing the total cost to more than $59,000.
JEMS director Teresa Foster-Geesaman said Monday all of the ambulance boxes in the county’s fleet have been refurbished and re-wired over the past several years, theoretically lowering the cost to re-mount them in the future.
The cost of a new complete ambulance package is more than $90,000.
Quotes for the chassis also were received from Moser Motors of Berne and Fincannon Ford of Hartford City. Moser’s price for an E-450 with a 158-inch wheelbase was $27,900. Fincannon’s quote was $24,723.
Life Star’s base quote of $25,995 was actually higher than Fincannon’s, but the trade-in allowance of $3,000 made Life Star’s price lower.
Also Monday, the commissioners gave formal approval for Foster-Geesaman to request funding for an additional paramedic in the 2005 budget.
In March, Foster-Geesaman received permission to hire an additional paramedic later this summer, but Commissioners Milo Miller Jr., Gary Theurer and Mike Leonhard said Monday they were under the impression that paramedic would be a fill-in for two paramedics who are currently unable to work.
Foster-Geesman told the commissioners Monday she is requesting funding for seven paramedics and five emergency medical technicians in her 2005 budget. That would be an increase of one paramedic. Foster-Geesaman also covers one 24-hour EMT shift per week in addition to working four eight-hour days as director. She is considered a non-exempt employee and draws overtime.
Foster-Geesaman said that because other full- and part-time paramedics are working so much overtime, hiring an additional paramedic won’t be that expensive.
“I was thinking ... it was a fill-in for the two that was off,” Theurer said of the position the commissioners approved in March. “We did not give you permission to add another employee. We got on different pages.”
After a discussion, the commissioners gave permission for the additional employee.[[In-content Ad]]
Monday afternoon, the commissioners chose the lowest of three quotes obtained for a heavy duty (1.25 ton) Ford ambulance chassis with a 158-inch wheelbase.
The rear box will be removed from the current Jay Emergency Medical Service ambulance and will be placed on the new chassis.
The 2004 Ford E-450 Ford chassis will be purchased from Life Star Rescue Inc. of Van Wert, Ohio. The cost of $22,995 for the chassis includes a $3,000 credit for trade-in of the county’s current 1999 chassis.
The cost of re-mounting the box — a process that includes painting and other work — will be approximately $36,000, bringing the total cost to more than $59,000.
JEMS director Teresa Foster-Geesaman said Monday all of the ambulance boxes in the county’s fleet have been refurbished and re-wired over the past several years, theoretically lowering the cost to re-mount them in the future.
The cost of a new complete ambulance package is more than $90,000.
Quotes for the chassis also were received from Moser Motors of Berne and Fincannon Ford of Hartford City. Moser’s price for an E-450 with a 158-inch wheelbase was $27,900. Fincannon’s quote was $24,723.
Life Star’s base quote of $25,995 was actually higher than Fincannon’s, but the trade-in allowance of $3,000 made Life Star’s price lower.
Also Monday, the commissioners gave formal approval for Foster-Geesaman to request funding for an additional paramedic in the 2005 budget.
In March, Foster-Geesaman received permission to hire an additional paramedic later this summer, but Commissioners Milo Miller Jr., Gary Theurer and Mike Leonhard said Monday they were under the impression that paramedic would be a fill-in for two paramedics who are currently unable to work.
Foster-Geesman told the commissioners Monday she is requesting funding for seven paramedics and five emergency medical technicians in her 2005 budget. That would be an increase of one paramedic. Foster-Geesaman also covers one 24-hour EMT shift per week in addition to working four eight-hour days as director. She is considered a non-exempt employee and draws overtime.
Foster-Geesaman said that because other full- and part-time paramedics are working so much overtime, hiring an additional paramedic won’t be that expensive.
“I was thinking ... it was a fill-in for the two that was off,” Theurer said of the position the commissioners approved in March. “We did not give you permission to add another employee. We got on different pages.”
After a discussion, the commissioners gave permission for the additional employee.[[In-content Ad]]
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