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actually it's a small price to pay for keeping in this private hello um here's another 630 petitions and i wanted to give this to the township dated october 15th the ashbury park press decided by reader's choice awards that lakewood ems annual squad was voted million dollars okay 960. you also have on the table 838 and 400 832 000 for garbage cans i say give us back our ems and take the driver's hand that anybody up here takes slightly it's certainly a very emotional issue unfortunately we have to be very quiet on the ems issue of family committee because there are certain laws that we are governed by that other parties are not necessarily governed by and we don't want to say or do anything that can be thrown back at us and accuses of an unfair leave of practice but i will tell you one thing commitment ray coles and i went out to leisure village to have a frank discussion with some of the citizens out there some of the community citizens out there and they basically had the same type of questions and concerns that i heard here for most of the people and they are legitimate concerns and they are fair concerns and all your questions are fair and they all deserve an answer but i'd like to read you the letter that peter village sent us after we came let us date february 2nd to direct to the honorable mayor stephen lindbergh and commitment recalls to the dear source thank you for your excellent presentation and explanation about the ems the residents were very fearful because of rumors that were told to them and you answered a lot of their questions they will not be happy with whatever decisions you make we are supporting you and are behind you in every way very true yours they take the whole presentation they showed it throughout their village i asked them to make it available to any people from the other residents other buildings that may want to put it on their closed circuit i'm sure if you contact the board of old they'd be more than happy to provide accomplishments on march 10th we also are waiting for a date from the end four seasons and the fairways to speak to the residents there because many of the residents don't come out to town hall they don't get they don't get to speak to us on a personal basis and they only hear in my opinion a one-sided information are there many other legitimate concerns raised absolutely to the do our ems personnel do a great job i don't think that's the issue here i don't think that's the issue for someone to even intimate that someone up here doesn't care about the safety and security of any resident in town that is ludicrous i know the people who are servant and all of us care about the safety and security of every single resident in this town that pains me that someone would think i'm gone we are looking at other proposals have we made a decision no we have not good good are we looking at other proposals yes we are does our town face a fiscal crisis yes we do is the state 1.3 billion is there a 1.3 billion dollar shortfall in the state in this year's state budget there is lakewood depends on the state for financial aid we don't know where that number is going to be we are looking at other cost-cutting measures the ems is not the only department that we are looking at we are looking at other departments and when the time for that comes about we will be announcing what if and when other cost-saving measures will be implemented there is a lot that there is a lot of answers that there are a lot of questions that need to be answered but please understand that everybody up here understands your concerns we have the same questions of our own professionals we will one thing and i know i speak it foreign if we feel that any private service that we decide if we decide to bring in a private service and we decide we feel that they are not up to the quality or level that we have now we will not do it let me let me just point one thing out there are no other towns in the area that had cms point that you wanted when it comes to advanced life support the provider will not change the provider for advanced life support is my mom if someone has a advantage if someone is having cardiac arrest or a stroke or some light threatening issue the monarch is accomplishing their response that's so i thank you very much for your concerns we have taken them very seriously and like i said the two other meetings that we have set up for february 25th 10th and others in the future no we don't need any of those garbage can't we say no to the county we don't want these new garbage cans if it's going to mean getting rid of you know ems they do such a wonderful job you save lives yes i mean we're the cash cow the senior citizens and we're the ones who really need the quick response time exactly you bring in a private organization not gonna happen coverage or the response i mean minutes counted people get sick or dying it does let's make lakewood great