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Friday, January 27, 2012
Peru Volunteer Ambulance Monthly Report
This is the report for November of 2011. One similar to this is read at a city council meeting each month.
12 comments:
Anonymous
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Lois- This is what PVAS reports to the city?? I'm sorry but what kind of reporting system is this? What was their billing and full charges for that month. how many hours did those employees work and how much do they charge per transfer? I really don't care how many miles they put on an ambulance that does not belong to the city.
LaSalle gives a monthly update to the media that list the number of calls for the month, the amount billed for the month and the amount of revenue collected. The alderman get even more information of exactly each call and how much was billed and a breakdown of payer mix such as how much is collected from medicare, medicaid, private insurance etc. Certain information cannot be given to the media for publication such as names, patient information etc because of patient privacy laws. Open and honest government.
Wow! If that's true La Salle is much more advanced and their citizens much more informed that those of Peru. I know when La Salle has had a water main break you hear on the radio what caused it, where it was, and what was done to fix it. Open, honest, informative. In my opinion, that creates a government citizens can be proud of.
The Peru PVAS reports are in the media, general public, council packets of information each month. The media makes the choice of what they highlight. The salaries are open information as is the billing. Those reports are not placed in the packets, just like city payroll. They are available for the general public. PVAS budget is $1.5 million, the city of Peru pays $48,000 per year, a average of about $4.00 per resident. If you were taxed for the service your cost would be much greater than $4.00 per resident. Lets just imagine that 6 new ambulances would cost about a million dollars. Then the expansion of the vehicles space, maybe the city will build another building add $1.5 million. Then the fulltime employees, annual employee cost and certain collective pensions, administration costs of maybe $150,000 a year, training to the level of the current PVAS staff. Looks like a whole new kingdom of costs for our residents. Again those costs would only be on the property owners. In the best of worlds and assume the operations go well and your collections increase and you get used ambulances and are able to charge 50% more. You can operate a City service for only about double your current property tax. If you pay $150 in Peru property taxes it would only go to about $300. Maybe you can or will support that for the short term. Its also inevitable that tax rates will go up for pensions and more. Once your able to dismantle PVAS, you won't be able to change the direction of the tax rates going up and will be married to the new change.
Can you tell us where within the general packet released to the public is the information other than what I have put on the blog. If there is it must be hidden in the city disbursements because this is the only paper we see with the PVAS letterhead.
10:06 You are on a role!! why did you stop there??? Let's see the other numbers such as "Revenue" generated from transfer's etc. Is it because the public would be surprised and realize it would carry it self, with no extra tax on the citizens? I wouldn't think Peru FD or the city would need that high cost of an Ambulance building and that SUV. sell that building back to Baker.
Wow!! pvas, 1.5 million budget. That seems to be alot, 12 full time employees at $80,000 per year comes to $960,000. you cannot tell the people of Peru that you spend over $500,000 on supplys and ambulance repairs. That is crazy. its much lower or you do not have a clue what your talking about. Most services in the area if they are as busy as you will use about $14,000 to $18,000 in supplies. Really no supplies at all used on transfers with most being local nursing home transfers. Where is the money going. I know Gold plated stethescopes. No way pvas should be charging the residents of peru the 48,000 per year.
This report doesn't seem to be very professionally processed. I would expect, at a minimum, that we would see monthly revenues and expenses, budget variance, statistics, reimbursements, payroll/manhour totals, write offs, etc. This report is childish and would not be acceptable to any board in today's time. Why is that Peru tolerates such outdated methods? Always seems to be an excuse for every issue that comes up. "We've done it this way for years and we don't want to change." Unacceptable and stagnant!
Anon 3:45 Would you be happy with some old used ambulances and a station that is embarrassing to house operations? Carry itself? Not without a taxing body. Would the public fell safe with the basic EMT package provided? Or maybe feel better with the advanceded training that Paramedics provide? Save you keyboard your arguments are based on the promise of more full time tax supported jobs, its coming! If your promised one, good luck. If your not consider your pocketbook.
10:55 Recently spoke with a Morris worker, come to find that Kurtz provides all 4 vehicles and personnell for the city of Morris and they have not raised taxes for these services. It sounds like there is more money to be made here then peru ambulance leads us to believe. Time will tell.
12 comments:
Lois- This is what PVAS reports to the city?? I'm sorry but what kind of reporting system is this? What was their billing and full charges for that month. how many hours did those employees work and how much do they charge per transfer? I really don't care how many miles they put on an ambulance that does not belong to the city.
LaSalle hands out to the Media every month the number of calls, the amount billed for that month and the amount of revenue collected each month.
LaSalle gives a monthly update to the media that list the number of calls for the month, the amount billed for the month and the amount of revenue collected. The alderman get even more information of exactly each call and how much was billed and a breakdown of payer mix such as how much is collected from medicare, medicaid, private insurance etc. Certain information cannot be given to the media for publication such as names, patient information etc because of patient privacy laws. Open and honest government.
Wow! If that's true La Salle is much more advanced and their citizens much more informed that those of Peru. I know when La Salle has had a water main break you hear on the radio what caused it, where it was, and what was done to fix it. Open, honest, informative. In my opinion, that creates a government citizens can be proud of.
The Peru PVAS reports are in the media, general public, council packets of information each month. The media makes the choice of what they highlight. The salaries are open information as is the billing. Those reports are not placed in the packets, just like city payroll. They are available for the general public. PVAS budget is $1.5 million, the city of Peru pays $48,000 per year, a average of about $4.00 per resident. If you were taxed for the service your cost would be much greater than $4.00 per resident. Lets just imagine that 6 new ambulances would cost about a million dollars. Then the expansion of the vehicles space, maybe the city will build another building add $1.5 million. Then the fulltime employees, annual employee cost and certain collective pensions, administration costs of maybe $150,000 a year, training to the level of the current PVAS staff. Looks like a whole new kingdom of costs for our residents. Again those costs would only be on the property owners. In the best of worlds and assume the operations go well and your collections increase and you get used ambulances and are able to charge 50% more. You can operate a City service for only about double your current property tax. If you pay $150 in Peru property taxes it would only go to about $300. Maybe you can or will support that for the short term. Its also inevitable that tax rates will go up for pensions and more. Once your able to dismantle PVAS, you won't be able to change the direction of the tax rates going up and will be married to the new change.
7:45 That's what I call a report! Peru's is nothing more than what it's labeled - an activity report.
Can you tell us where within the general packet released to the public is the information other than what I have put on the blog. If there is it must be hidden in the city disbursements because this is the only paper we see with the PVAS letterhead.
10:06 You are on a role!! why did you stop there??? Let's see the other numbers such as "Revenue"
generated from transfer's etc. Is it because the public would be surprised and realize it would carry it self, with no extra tax on the citizens? I wouldn't think Peru FD or the city would need that high cost of an Ambulance building and that SUV. sell that building back to Baker.
Wow!! pvas, 1.5 million budget. That seems to be alot, 12 full time employees at $80,000 per year comes to $960,000. you cannot tell the people of Peru that you spend over $500,000 on supplys and ambulance repairs. That is crazy. its much lower or you do not have a clue what your talking about. Most services in the area if they are as busy as you will use about $14,000 to $18,000 in supplies. Really no supplies at all used on transfers with most being local nursing home transfers. Where is the money going. I know Gold plated stethescopes. No way pvas should be charging the residents of peru the 48,000 per year.
This report doesn't seem to be very professionally processed. I would expect, at a minimum, that we would see monthly revenues and expenses, budget variance, statistics, reimbursements, payroll/manhour totals, write offs, etc. This report is childish and would not be acceptable to any board in today's time. Why is that Peru tolerates such outdated methods? Always seems to be an excuse for every issue that comes up. "We've done it this way for years and we don't want to change." Unacceptable and stagnant!
Anon 3:45 Would you be happy with some old used ambulances and a station that is embarrassing to house operations? Carry itself? Not without a taxing body. Would the public fell safe with the basic EMT package provided? Or maybe feel better with the advanceded training that Paramedics provide? Save you keyboard your arguments are based on the promise of more full time tax supported jobs, its coming! If your promised one, good luck. If your not consider your pocketbook.
10:55 Recently spoke with a Morris worker, come to find that Kurtz provides all 4 vehicles and personnell for the city of Morris and they have not raised taxes for these services. It sounds like there is more money to be made here then peru ambulance leads us to believe. Time will tell.
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