Many, if not all, of Troy City Council members, ran on public safety. Some even used slogans for their slate like “Keep Troy Safe.” Yet here we are 10 weeks into the year and we still don’t have the most basic thing needed to evaluate EMS performance: the raw response data.
Not only has the data not been provided, the council hasn’t even asked the contractor for it, despite the contract requiring it.
Instead we have a council that seems more focused on political ambitions than public safety:
- One member already gearing up for a mayoral run
- One running for Michigan State Senate this year
- A mayor running for congress in MI-11,whose public records have previously shown over $120,000 in IRS tax and other liens.
Meanwhile the one responsibility they all campaigned on, keeping Troy residents safe, is being treated as an afterthought. In one recent meeting, EMS was handled flippantly. In the most recent meeting it was completely ignored. This isn’t complicated. Running a city requires doing the basic work:
- Ask for the data.
- Review the performance.
- Hold contractors accountable.
Instead, we’re left with a council that appears more interested in the next office they want than the job they were elected to do. Troy deserves leaders who can handle the absolute basics of running a functional city, and who stay focused on the job they have, not the job they’re campaigning for next.
We need to get the raw EMS data and investigate how there were apparently no additional ambulances last night in Troy after one of the ambulances was taken out by a rollover accident, while responding to another accident. And how it seems that despite GPS and a navigator, are having difficulty in finding their destination.