{"id":993,"date":"2023-12-13T21:06:13","date_gmt":"2023-12-14T03:06:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elyminnesota.com\/blog\/?p=993"},"modified":"2023-12-13T21:25:42","modified_gmt":"2023-12-14T03:25:42","slug":"city-council-approves-emergency-payroll-for-ambulance-dec-12-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elyminnesota.com\/blog\/city-council-approves-emergency-payroll-for-ambulance-dec-12-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"City Council Approves Emergency Payroll for Ambulance Dec 12 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"534\" src=\"https:\/\/elyminnesota.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Screenshot-2023-12-13-at-8.06.40\u202fPM-1-1024x534.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-997\" srcset=\"https:\/\/elyminnesota.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Screenshot-2023-12-13-at-8.06.40\u202fPM-1-1024x534.png 1024w, https:\/\/elyminnesota.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Screenshot-2023-12-13-at-8.06.40\u202fPM-1-300x156.png 300w, https:\/\/elyminnesota.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Screenshot-2023-12-13-at-8.06.40\u202fPM-1-768x400.png 768w, https:\/\/elyminnesota.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Screenshot-2023-12-13-at-8.06.40\u202fPM-1-1536x800.png 1536w, https:\/\/elyminnesota.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Screenshot-2023-12-13-at-8.06.40\u202fPM-1-150x78.png 150w, https:\/\/elyminnesota.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Screenshot-2023-12-13-at-8.06.40\u202fPM-1-400x208.png 400w, https:\/\/elyminnesota.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Screenshot-2023-12-13-at-8.06.40\u202fPM-1.png 1704w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>l to r:  Fire Chief Dave Marshall, Al Forsman, Paul Kess<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Click here to watch <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/VX9LIeZA6Tw\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/VX9LIeZA6Tw\">YouTube<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column\">\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\">Click here to watch <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/VX9LIeZA6Tw\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/VX9LIeZA6Tw\">YouTube<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\">This is NOT a permanent fix. Many issues were well articulated tonight at this special 20-minute Council meeting. Hope was expressed that Ely&#8217;s hospital will bring the ambulance back under its wings. EBCH&#8217;s research study is expected to be completed in January 2024. Ely, Winton, Morse and Fall Lake Townships (Joint Powers ambulance service area) were asked to contribute emergency funds per tonight&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ely.mn.us\/vertical\/sites\/%7B487F0A5E-BE52-4CAD-977F-7436EDEE4F85%7D\/uploads\/2023-12-13_Special_Council_Meeting_pkt.pdf\">Council packet<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\">For more details about ambulance issues, refer to the Sept. 11th minutes from Ambulance Joint Powers Board meeting included in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ely.mn.us\/vertical\/sites\/%7B487F0A5E-BE52-4CAD-977F-7436EDEE4F85%7D\/uploads\/2023-09-19_Council_Agenda_Pkt.pdf\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.ely.mn.us\/vertical\/sites\/%7B487F0A5E-BE52-4CAD-977F-7436EDEE4F85%7D\/uploads\/2023-09-19_Council_Agenda_Pkt.pdf\">Council&#8217;s Sept. 19th packet<\/a> (pages 24-25). The Oct. meeting was postponed. No meeting was held in Nov.  On Monday, Dec. 11th, a Special Council-Joint Powers Ambulance meeting was held in Winton. Al Forsman (middle in photo) is Council&#8217;s Rep on Ambulance JPB. Mayor Omerza asked the public to contact our Washingon, D.C. legislators for better funding. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> l to r: Fire Chief Dave Marshall, Al Forsman, Paul Kess <\/p>\n<p>Click here to watch YouTube.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\">Click here to watch YouTube.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\">This is NOT a permanent fix. Many issues were well articulated tonight at this special 20-minute Council meeting. Hope was expressed that Ely&#8217;s hospital will bring the ambulance back under its [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[278,324],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elyminnesota.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/993"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elyminnesota.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elyminnesota.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elyminnesota.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elyminnesota.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=993"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/elyminnesota.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/993\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1009,"href":"https:\/\/elyminnesota.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/993\/revisions\/1009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elyminnesota.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elyminnesota.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elyminnesota.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}