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Trustees OK funds for EMS heart monitor

GREEN?TWP.

GREENFORD — Green Township trustees approved the purchase of a new heart monitor for the fire department’s EMS on Monday.

Trustee Dave Slagle said the fire department spent $12,300 toward the equipment while the township paid $12,000.

Fire Chief Todd Baird said the unit, a Physio Control 15, is already in service and provides real-time heart monitoring from the ambulance to the hospital, adding most trips are to the St. Elizabeth Boardman Health Care Center.

The manufacturer states the monitor/defibrillator “is the new standard in emergency care for advanced life support teams who want the most clinically innovative, operationally effective device available today.”

Baird said they had to order the monitor through the state purchasing program before the end of May to take advantage of $5,000 for a trade-in and another $1,500 in bonus money.

He said they are hoping to replace the older monitor on the other EMS unit with grant money, “but it looks like grants are drying up.”

The department has spent over $38,000 for the EMS with the recent purchase of a replacement ambulance, Baird said, when it bought a 2006 Ford E450 ambulance from the Woodson County, Missouri EMS.

The fire department and the township split the $14,000 cost, and Baird said once the ambulance, with 86,000 miles on it, was completely outfitted the cost was about $16,000.

“That’s a lot of money to put in one place,” he said, regarding the EMS department.

In other business, Slagle said the township will upgrade all the lighting at Coy Park with Yesco in Youngstown providing the parts and Soltis Electric in Salem doing the installation.

“It needs approval by Ohio Edison,” Slagle said in order for the township to receive a rebate from the company.

Plus, Slagle said, there is the ongoing savings the township will realize through the lower cost for using LED lights.

The township also approved a measure to re-shingle all the buildings in Coy Park by Majestic Roofing. That will include three large pavilions, two smaller ones and the restroom facility, he said.

The upgrades will be paid for by an inheritance to the township from the estate of resident Phyliss L. Lamb who died in June 2015 which left $80,000 to the township to be used in Coy Park.

In other business, trustees passed a resolution to pay, out of the fire fund, 10 cents per resident to the Hazardous Materials Response Agency located at 700 Industrial Road in Youngstown.

Slagle said it amounted to about $340 and helped subsidize the all-volunteer force from fire departments around the county.

The agency said the volunteers “are specially trained to handle some of the most dangerous work in the world.”

lshields@salemnews.net

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