Comments on: Escambia Commission Delays Hiring Company For EMS Staff Training

By: Look Forward

Look Forward — Sat, 22 Jun 2019 22:48:34 +0000

Its pretty obvious why the County is hiring an outside law firm to defend these employees. The County’s legal team knows that these employees are innocent to the degree this prima Donna has accused them of. They know if they leave them in the wind the County will suffer much more from liable law suits. If Alonso or HR thought any of it was true they’d be fired already. Ask any employees that was terminated with any pending changes such as domestic violence, assault etc.

Lumon is right this woman is going to cost the county a lot

By: Wise Years

Wise Years — Sat, 22 Jun 2019 15:44:09 +0000

If you know one training company will behired, why hire lawyers? Full employment for lawyers act so Commissioner ddoesnt look weak and indecisive?

By: Hurt by EMS leadership

Hurt by EMS leadership — Sat, 22 Jun 2019 13:30:06 +0000

The county wouldn’t have hired an attorney at this stage in the investigation if there wasn’t a need to defend something. Obviously there’s something to dr elders claims. EMS leadership would be wise to retain their own attorneys

By: MR REALITY

MR REALITY — Fri, 21 Jun 2019 22:12:57 +0000

No matter what Barry will vote with May…..

By: Wise Years

Wise Years — Fri, 21 Jun 2019 19:36:10 +0000

So Barry wants to NOT decide so he can pass the hot potato expense off to an unelected County Administrator…very swampish

By: uncle M

uncle M — Fri, 21 Jun 2019 17:50:50 +0000

@ Support the BOCC, Dr. Edler is no prima donna, she wants what is best for the county and EMS. Trust me once all this is resolved and training is done, our EMS will be better then it already is. EMS in this area is one of the best I have every worked with.
@ SW, farming out EMS is not the answer, just look at Santa Rosa County. Private EMS is only about money and not service.

Now we know where Century gets its example on how to run things from. SMH at BOCC

By: Robert Jackson

Robert Jackson — Fri, 21 Jun 2019 17:12:18 +0000

How eloquent of the Chairman.

By: Tax Payer

Tax Payer — Fri, 21 Jun 2019 13:09:41 +0000

Let me get this straight. We hired Dr. Elder as our chief medical examiner. Dr Elder tells the commission that the training is sub par for first responders among other internal issues. Dr Elder recommends an urgent need for training. We have the commission chair using turd piles as his analogy. We cant decide to support training at the cost of 250k for critical first responders. This same commission voted to write off 6 million dollars of outstanding EMS bills due to a software glitch last year. Considering the software glitch still exist I expect there will be another write off?

By: Bill

Bill — Fri, 21 Jun 2019 12:07:12 +0000

We have 5 guys without dr in front of their name making medical decisions

By: SW

SW — Fri, 21 Jun 2019 11:04:10 +0000

Maybe the BOCC should get out of the EMS business and farm it out?