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1 the years, the City had made a great effort to give its personnel 2 emergency training and said he thought it would be interesting to find . 3 out just how many other community fire and police departments were 4 experiencing the same rise in medical calls as compared to fire runs. 5 Mr. Bowlin said he wasn't certain just what those exact figures might 6 be but promised to research and report them back to the City. However, 7 he said he did know that ambulance runs were a steadily growing County 8 service with about 65 , 000 runs county-wise last year. The County Health 9 Department representative also reported that the emergency services 10 system in Hennepin County is viewed as one of the most progressive in 11 the nation. 12 The Mayor thanked him for briefing the Council on the health services 13 which are available to St. Anthony. 14 Council Majority Supports Transfer of Cable Community Access from Cable 15 TV North Central to a Non-Profit Corporation 16 The agenda packet contained copies of the August 12th letter from the 17 North Suburban Cable Commission Administrator to which was attached the 18 executive summary of the Commission's access Report recommending the 19 transfer. A copy of the proposed Resolution 88-033 supporting the 20 transfer was also included. 21 Dennis Murphy, the City's representative on the North Suburban Cable 22 Commission, and Bootsie Anderson, the Commission Administrator, reported � 23 the reasons the Commission was recommending the transfer of community 24 access programming from the current cable franchise holder to the North 25 Suburbs Access Corporation (NSAC) , an existing non-profit organization 26 which currently performs functions of the Cable Commission on matters 27 related to community access. 28 Mr. Murphy told the Councilmembers that basically what the North 29 Suburban Cable Commission was asking them. to do by adopting the 30 proposed resolution, was to direct the Cable Commission to negotiate 31 with Cable TV North Central for the transfer of functions and resources 32 for community access to NSAC. He indicated the cable company and the 33 Commission were in agreement that someone else should take over the 34 community access programming -but disagreed on the timetable for the 35 transfer as it related to the financial support for the programming, 36 especially what the costs of a successful community access would be. 37 The Cable Commission therefore perceived the need to have an independent 38 audit done on those amounts. 39 Ms. Anderson and Mr. Murphy reiterated the areas in which the 40 Commission perceived the cable company wasn't honoring the franchise 41 agreement they had signed with the ten north - suburban communities the 42 Cable Commission represents when the franchise had been sold to Cable 43 TV North Central. 0 7