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Originally Posted by Novacek
That's absolutely not true.
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That absolutely
is true.
There was a bidding process for the EMS coverage open to many EMS entities. ATC-EMS (stupidly, I know, and irresponsibly, imho) said they'd eat the cost in exchange for the wide "exposure" of working these events would bring to the organization. In other words, they entered a bid of $0, when they probably could have easily secured the contract just by bidding on the low end. What good that exposure will do for them, esp at that cost, I have no idea. The article was written while that bid process was taking place, so at the time it was accurate. My info is straight from ATC-EMS. Believe what you want.
ETA: Even if the $51K figure in the article is true, and for these purposes let's assume it is, that is but a mere fraction of the cost of they are spending to provide coverage out there. Overtime for 70 Paramedics for the F1 weekend
alone is around $100K, and they're providing staffing for hot-track events throughout the year.
The $77K paid to ESD 11 is a drop in the bucket compared to what they were forced to spend to serve the structures at COTA not present in the rest of the ESD. COTA doesn;t disappear when there's no racing, and even though COTA is now in the city, ESD 11 is still the first response agency for everything there except Fire Alarm Activation calls, for which AFD is first.
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