A sitting Troy City Council member is now publicly arguing that the EMS contract does not require what the contract says, in plain English, directly on the page in front of us.
Section 2.14 states: “A qualified medical unit … shall arrive to the scene within 6:00 minutes of call dispatched for 90% of emergency incidents.”
Not “should.”
Not “aspire to.”
Not “work toward.”
Shall.
It then calls that requirement a “standard.” STAR’s own accepted proposal calls it the “required 6-minute response time.”
Yet Councilman David Hamilton is telling residents that 6 minutes is merely a “goal.”
This is gaslighting at its finest: asking the public to ignore the document, ignore the words on the page and accept a politically convenient rewrite of reality because the contractor has failed to meet the standard.
Reasonable people can debate whether Troy chose the right EMS model. They can debate cost, staffing and how quickly an in-house system could be created. What cannot be honestly debated is whether the contract says what it plainly says.
When an elected official is willing to deny clear written language to protect a failed policy decision, that should be disqualifying from any position of public trust.
Troy residents deserve representatives who will enforce contracts, not rewrite them after the contractor fails.