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page three -- <br />12) LAST BUT NOT LBAST: Is the program being presented to you an actual <br />paramedics program? The answer is "NO ". It is a program for E.M.T.'S <br />which is exactly what the City of Roseville now provides! I have been <br />told that this group then plans to secure additional training to <br />qualify them as paramedics. Who pays for this on- the -job- training? <br />Do not doctors and nurses come fully trained before they are hired to <br />fill the job? Why not this group? Then, after we have provided this <br />on- the - job - training, will they be content with the wages they now say <br />they are willing to accept? Historical evidence says "NO ". <br />As mayor, it is one of my responsibilities to question all proposals and all <br />programs. I am questioning and seeking answers. When the answers have been <br />provided from sources upon which I have learned to rely and trust, then the <br />decision will be made. <br />The Metropolitan Council is doing an in -depth study of emergency medical <br />needs of the metropolitan area. I am certain that this group will use all <br />the necessary facts, figures, areas of concern, all viewpoints in its <br />resource data. Our city manager, James Andre, will be on top of this study <br />from beginning to end. I, for one, intend to carefully evaluate their assess- <br />ment of our needs as the picture will be viewed from all sides, not just one. <br />00 <br />