Cole Camp Ambulance

Another mini mob found their way to the Ambulance Board meeting. The concern is said to be because we have no ALS service in Cole Camp. We haven't had it for several years and it didn't seem to be an issue until the Ambulance Board decided to seek a better deal with a bank other than the one in Cole Camp. As i hear it the Ambulance District sought to borrow a small amount of money from the Cole Camp bank a couple years ago to make ends meet at the end of the year. Brother Larry wanted to charge us taxpayers $3500 for a bond to borrow money for a couple months until our property taxes were paid and distributed after the first of the year even though the Ambulance District had over $200,000 in CD's depositied in the Brother's Bank. I guess it didn't make fiscal sense to the board to spend $3500 for a bond to borrow $10,000 so they sought out another lender to borrow the money without the cost of the bond. The Board talked to the Farmers Bank of Lincoln and cut a deal to borrow the money without the bond and also received a better rate on their savings deposits. A no brainer to most people, change banks, afterall it is the taxpayers money. Ever since the money was moved the lack of an ALS has become an issue. Most of us with any common sense know that the reason for all the bs that has followed the change of banks is solely related to the change of banks not the lack of ALS service. Hey Ambulance Board, just move the money back to the Brothers Bank at a lower interest rate and go ahead and pay the Brothers their $3500 bond and everything will be OK. It doesn't help that the local paper a larglely unreliable news source who panders to the Brothers and their causes reports inaccurately only one side of the story. Instead of the Cole Camp Courier it should be called the Brothers Courier.

No new news here. Its been that way a long time in CC. Those with the most money make all the rules and the DLer's do all their dirty work. Its too bad they have to attack the character of Rodney in the process.

I am so glad Mrs. Fajan is there to try to keep the good ol'boys straight.
Rodney had the ambulance that he leased to the district. Conflict of interest?/the AG said so. I really can't believe this is simpley because Rodney wanted to help the district. If he wants to help without making a profit...donate the ambulance.
I hope Mrs. Fajan is able to recognize more underhandedness going on there.

beengone wrote:

I am so glad Mrs. Fajan is there to try to keep the good ol'boys straight.
Rodney had the ambulance that he leased to the district. Conflict of interest?/the AG said so. I really can't believe this is simpley because Rodney wanted to help the district. If he wants to help without making a profit...donate the ambulance.
I hope Mrs. Fajan is able to recognize more underhandedness going on there.

yes it was rodneys ambulance. maybe he was making a profit off of it but so was the ambulance district. while ALS is now the rallying call for rodneys detractors the real truth is the "good ol'boys" are mad because rodney took the money to lincoln end of story. as soon as rodney pulled the money out there was leroy hagston acting dumb about where the money went. was he acting? now they'll try to ruin rodneys name and use the ALS issue as fodder. as far as i'm concerned i don't mind rodney making a profit with his ambulance, he was allowing the ambulance district to make a profit as well. its just like the petey's want something for nothing just like in foreclosure and probate.
while mrs fajen means well and we do need ALS rodney is not the reason we don't have ALS. one ambulance board member told bill holman several months ago that if he wanted ALS he should just "build a helicopter pad at his house". we'll have ALS when the petey's figure out how to get someone to invest in college and then come to cole camp and work as an ALS for less tha $10 an hour OR we'll have ALS when one of petey's family goes to college to become an paramedic and the pricetag will be in the six figure range.
while we're on the subject of the attorney general and conflict of interest what about the nursing home??
lets see, the administrator of the nursing home deposits the districts money in her husbands bank at a rate less competitive than competing neighboring banks. the nursing home districts "retirement fund" is overseen by the nursing home adminisrators brother(rex smarr??). who gets and how much is top secret information although it should be public record. from what i understand the only people that can afford to buy into the retirement fund is the administrator and the better paid employees. then you have a loan officer at the same bank sitting on the board as well. conflict of interest? i wonder how many times he has voted against the wishes of his administrator. the administrator makes close to a six figure salary PLUS i'm told the best health insurance money can buy. for that kind of salary, benefits, as well as additional perks she should see to it that the district gets the best rate on its deposits as well as making sure her lessor paid staff make enough money to save a little for retirement. while the Attorney General is in town maybe he should look into the nursing home affairs as well.