Transcript for Piscataway Ems meeting on April 23 2023
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Speaker 1 00:00:25 Okay, the waiting room is empty. The time is now 1801 hours and I'm call calling this meeting to order. Speaker 1 00:00:36 Adequate notice of this meeting has been provided as required under chapter 2 31 PL 1975, specifying the time, date, location, login, or dial in information, and to the extent known the agenda by posting a copy of the notice on the municipal Building municipal court and the two municipal library bulletin boards municipal website, and providing a copy to the official newspapers of the township. And by filing a copy of the Office of the Township clerk in accordance with a certification by the clerk, which will be entered into the minutes. The township continues to use a remote meeting format in an effort to mitigate the change of exposure to Covid to 19 as a part of the township's ongoing effort to slow the rate of transmission and avoid overwhelming our treatment centers. In order to make sure a clear record of the meeting can be made and that all parties are heard in an organized fashion, all members of the public will be muted during this meeting. If a member of the public wishes to speak during any public comment portion, please raise your hand. This can be done either through the Zoom app or by pressing star nine on your phone. I will unmute members of the public individually if they have their hand raised. When it is your turn to speak, you will get a prompt or request to unmute. Please click on the prompt or press star six on your phone to unmute. Speaker 1 00:01:55 Upon being unmuted, you should begin to ask any and all questions you may have. You'll have three minutes to speak at the conclusion of which you'll be muted again, and the advisory committee or administration will respond as necessary. Each member of the public shall have only one opportunity to speak during each public portion. As a technology does not allow us to keep to know if there are multiple callers on an individual line. We ask that if you wish to speak, that you dial in on a separate line so we can recognize you as a separate individual. Individuals may also submit written comments to the EMS coordinator up to 48 hours prior to the meeting to be read by the EMS coordinator to the during the public comment portion of the meeting. Said Comments shall be limited to three minutes of reading. Thank you in advance for your patience as we continue to move the township forward during this health emergency. I please stand and join me with the Pledge of Allegiance. Aye. Pledge allegiance to the flag. Aye. Aye. Republic, Republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Thank you. You can, you can be seated. Speaker 1 00:03:11 All right. Roll call Mr. Dacey. See he's Captain Piltch Speaker 2 00:03:17 Here. Speaker 1 00:03:19 River Road Rescue Squad. Representative Ms. Here, river Road Alternate North Delton Rescue Squad. Representative Ms. Green Speaker 2 00:03:31 Present Speaker 1 00:03:34 And North Dalton's Alternate Speaker 3 00:03:37 Here. Speaker 1 00:03:39 Ms. Farmer, she's here. And Mr. Guzman, he is also here. And Ms. Lombardi, are you present? I don't see her. Alright. We do have quorum the meeting minutes. Were dispensed via email, the EMS Advisory Council, is there a motion to accept and approve the minutes as issued? Speaker 2 00:04:15 I'll make a motion. Speaker 1 00:04:17 Captain Piltch. Is there a second? Second. Mr. Dacey. Any objections? So move the meeting minutes. Were approved and will be sent to the township admin any unfinished business from last month. Go ahead, Mr. Scarpa. Speaker 3 00:04:45 Once again, still not getting Zoom links or the minutes. I have to have 'em forwarded by other members of the committee. If you could do me a favor and look into that and please advise. Speaker 1 00:04:56 Yeah, I will. I'll figure out a way to reach out to you with a text message and just confirm that I have your email. I didn't get anything kicked back this time. I actually sent you a additional email that didn't get kicked back a few weeks ago. I just assumed. Yeah, Speaker 3 00:05:11 No, I I didn't receive it so we'll, we'll, we'll chat offline and figure it out. Speaker 1 00:05:16 Okay. It reminds me, I, I did wanna bring something else up with you. I forgot to put in the agenda that you brought up Mr. Scarpa, about the the posts. Yes. What post? The EMS the ambulances can be sitting at. We did touch on it in the last meeting. The new post locations were the municipal complex, the fire academy and Piscataway, OEM were the post, but I looked into it just a little bit more to address your issue, your concern or your issue. Okay. So JFK uses a heat map and predictive modeling to identify hot spots where there are likely locations for the next EMS assignments. Speaker 3 00:06:01 Okay. Speaker 1 00:06:01 So they submitted with the contract this heat map and predictive modeling and they also said that they do reposition and optimize assets through the day to facilitate sort of response times less community disruption and a safer EMS system safer for patients and providers. I'm reading right from the, the contract. Okay. So hope that answers your question with that. Speaker 3 00:06:23 The only concern I would have as an organization, as president of the organization is I do rent and there are times where I have rentals, whether it's the parking lot or the hall and those app, that apparatus is in our whole parking lot and that's really not conducive to have them responding at with, you know, whether it's children in the, in the parking lot or rents rentals. Speaker 1 00:06:45 Okay. I will forward that to JFK. Thank Speaker 3 00:06:49 You. Speaker 1 00:06:53 Any other unfinished business? Any new business? Mr. Speaker 4 00:07:14 I'm going to just get it over with. Sure. Gonna get the same response. River Road, as always, as is the request of our constituents would like to know what we can do to continue to serve the residents of Piscataway. If the township would not desire to answer that, that is okay. It's just the question that we are continuously asked to ask. We are excited to state that we have, since the beginning of the year, had some sort of a nominal return to Piscataway 56 transports out of the township itself from direct calls for service. So we are glad to be able to share that. Speaker 1 00:07:55 Thank you Evan. Any other new business? Sorry, that rolls right into announcements. Any announcements? River wrote or Moore? Speaker 1 00:08:14 Okay. I'm gonna open up the meeting to the public. This is now the time for public comment. If any member of the public wishes to speak, please raise your hand. This can be done either through the Zoom app or by pressing star nine on your phone. I will unmute members of the public individually if they have their hand raised. When it is your turn to speak, you'll get a prompt or request to unmute. Please click on the prompt or press star six on your phone to unmute yourself at that time. Please state your name and address and then you'll have three minutes to make your comments. The MS advisory committee or administration will respond if necessary. After you have completed any comments or questions. I don't see any hands. I do see one. Go ahead, Matt. Speaker 6 00:09:07 Hi. I just have a question. I hear a lot of rumors. I'm, I'm Ross Hall for the ver chief for the Rescue squad Speaker 1 00:09:17 Chief. Can you say your last name? Matt? I'm sorry. Speaker 6 00:09:20 Weisman. Speaker 1 00:09:21 Thank you sir. Go ahead. Speaker 6 00:09:24 So for the RO rescue squad chief, are you a paid employee of the organization? Do you collect a salary there? Speaker 4 00:09:33 I do not collect a salary. Not sure what it has to do with this meeting, but I do not collect a salary. Speaker 6 00:09:41 I'm just curious because I couldn't, couldn't get ahold of anyone to, to squash our rumor or do you collect any type of compensation directly from the squad on a monthly basis? Speaker 4 00:09:55 I collect a nominal stipend. Speaker 6 00:09:58 Can you disclose what Nom non, I'm sorry for being tongue tied. Nominal is, Speaker 4 00:10:04 Nominal is in line with the fire district commissioners. Speaker 6 00:10:10 Okay. And that's from Speaker 4 00:10:13 Your, you're more than welcome to come down and visit. You are a former member. You know where the building is. There's people here every day. Speaker 6 00:10:25 That's fine. I mean, I am a life member even though you guys decided that I wasn't. But that's a different topic. Not for here. Thank you. Speaker 1 00:10:39 Thank you for your comment. Matt, any other public comment? I don't see any hands. Or is there a motion to adjourn the meeting? Speaker 6 00:10:53 So moved. Speaker 1 00:10:55 Any objections? So moved. The meeting is adjourned at 18, 11 hours. Thank you everyone. Speaker 6 00:11:06 All right. Thank you everyone.Minutes for Piscataway Ems meeting on April 23 2023