LORD, we ask you to bless and protect our first responders, our Police, our Firemen, and our Ems as they face the daily challenges and danger doing their daily lifesaving tasks.  Send your Guardian Angels to look over them and give them the skills to protect and save lives then bring them home safely. AMEN

CONCERNS FOR  JOHNSON CITY

to voice your comments go to the contact us contact section

or you can write or call to voice your concerns or complaint to:

City of Johnson City

P.O.Box 369

Johnson City, Texas 78636

Phone 830 868-7111

Mayor: Kermit Roeder

Council Members: Joe Ginn, Rhonda Stell (Mayor Pro Tem), James Stevenson,Denisa Odiorne, Ralph Moss

City Administrator: David Dockery 

Police Department Becomes

"Step Child" of the City

Under Current Mayor!!

ATTENTION CITIZENS OF JOHNSON CITY!!
This letter is to inform you of the great in justice that is taking
place here in Johnson City by our City Manager and City Council toward
the Officers of the Johnson City Police Department.  I'm writing this
letter to make you aware of the situation so that we the citizens and
taxpayers of Johnson City can rally behind our Officers and help them
in their struggle with City Hall.  These Officers put their lives on
the line each day to protect us, it's time we stand up to protect
them!
The struggle with City Hall involves issues of Manpower, Hours Worked
and Benefits dealing with Overtime Pay, Vacation Leave, and Holiday
leave.  The Johnson City Police Department currently consists of 4
full time Officers.  During the past year, there has been a push by
citizens asking for the City to provide 24 hour Police Coverage.  The
Police Department adjusted its schedule and attempted to provide
extended coverage during the night hours to guard against crimes that
were occurring particularly during the late night hours.  But due to
the limited manpower, the Officers were accumulating overtime hours
and could not take any time off to use Vacation or Holiday leave.
Many of you may not know, but due to Federal Law, a city with a police
force with less than 5 Officers is not required to compensate its
Officers with overtime pay.  The City of Johnson City has chosen not
to pay its Officers overtime pay for hours worked over the normal 40
hrs a week.  The bottom line is with the current staffing levels at
the Police Department, it cannot provide the city with adequate
coverage without over working its Officers and depriving them of
benefits.
In an attempt to fix the problem, the Officers of the Johnson City
Police Department went to the City Manager and City Council to ask for
additional manpower.  If and when a fifth Officer is hired, the City
will be forced to provide the Police Officers with full benefits that
all the other city employees enjoy.  The possible addition of a fifth
officer has been a thorn in the City Manager and City Councils side
because of dollar signs.  Well, I'm here to tell you, you can get only
so much blood out of a turnip.  In a City Council meeting, it was
decided by the City Council that a survey would be sent out to the
citizens of Johnson City to ask if we the citizens would support a tax
increase to add either one or two additional Officers to the police
force.
Since this meeting, the survey was never sent out to the citizens as
was decided and agreed upon by the City Manager, City Council, and
Police Department.  During the recent weeks, the City Manager has
threatened to cut the Officers pay, has terminated all compensatory
time that the Officers were previously being given, and he has
terminated all Holiday Leave given to the Officers.  The City Manager
has drawn a line between City Hall and the Police Department.  He has
chosen to retaliate against the Officers by depriving them of benefits
that are given to the remainder of the city staff and has created a
Hostile Working Environment.  Due to the recent actions, morale among
the Officers is at an all time low, one Officer quit the force, one
has applied elsewhere, and a third has threatened a civil lawsuit
against the city.
Citizens of Johnson City, I'm asking that we stand together and
SUPPORT OUR POLICE OFFICERS against this injustice by City Hall!
These Officers put their lives on the line for us.  They sacrifice
time away from their families to work Nights, Weekends, and Holidays
to protect us.  As we all know, public servants like police officers
and schoolteachers are not the best paid professions out there but we
are lucky that their a few chosen people that are willing to make the
necessary sacrifices to serve their community.  Lets not fail them by
allowing our City Leaders to treat them unfairly.
I'm asking you to please Voice Your Support of the Police Department
to the City Manager and the City Council.  Please ATTEND the City
Council meeting on June 6th at 6:00 PM (City Hall) and at the Town
Hall Meetings being held on June 12th (City Pool @ 6:30 PM) and June
14th (PEC Auditorium @ 2:00 PM) to VOICE your SUPPORT for the Police
Department.
Lets put the shoe on the other foot and PROTECT our Police Officers!
They need our SUPPORT!!!
 
I thank you for taking the time to read this letter and hope that you
will also circulate it to other Johnson City citizens.
 
Respectfully,
Concerned J-C Citizen 
 
NOTE: We congratulate you for standing up for the Police Department of Johnson City.
 Everyone should be aware that the current mayor has supported for years the idea of demolishing
 the Johnson City Police Department!  Mayor Roeder has publicly supported this idea in ads 
taken out in the Johnson City Record Courier. We suggest that you pull some of these ads 
that were run years ago in about year2002. This mayor will tell you that he supports the police
 department when in fact he does every thing he can to make working conditions in the police
 department worse. This makes it more difficult to recruit and hire more help! Rumor is also
 flying that David Dockery is in line for a $10,000.00 a year pay increase if he has not already received it! 
What makes Mr. Dockery so important that warrants this type of pay increase when the police 
department is kept on the low end of the pay scale? Yet council members say they support the police.
 Well, council look at the real intentions of this Mayor! Also, Council, while you are looking,
 put the City Administrator in his place! With police department morale in the shambles, ridiculous
 building code fees and arrogant inspectors, this city administration runs off new business in our community!
 The city runs business off as fast as the Chamber tries to attract new business!   

Slot Machine Gambling

 In Johnson City???

Concerned 2.27.2008 There is a rumor going around that the old theater building, next door to the Friendly Bar, (on Nugent St.) is where a ‘mini casino’ is going to open. (I understand the Friendly Bar owner will have no interest in this operation.)  This is not the type of business that we need in Johnson City. This is the type of business that cannot do anything but bring harm to our community and certainly teach our youth the wrong thing. People that cannot afford to feed their families will spent their pay checks in this type of facility. Isn’t gambling illegal in Texas?  I highly urge every citizen, Christian and church group to call, write letters to every county and city politician, and the police chief to not allow this to happen.

Concerned local citizen

Note: We have confirmed this to be true. Some people out of Round Mountain have put one of these businesses in Granite Shoals and it is going very well and making a lot of money. These “slot machines” are also known as “8-liners.” They supposedly do not pay off in money but instead pay off in gifts, such as gift cards, teddy bears, etc. A number of counties such as Travis County and cities like Waco have had tremendous problems with these types of operations paying off under the table in cash.  The owners of these machines approached the City Of Johnson City about this and we have been told the mayor give them the go ahead without any regards as to what impact it would have on the city police department. (Imagine that! This is no surprise.)

County government and city government can restrict certain unwanted business from coming into a community. The county has restricted sex related businesses from coming into the county and they can certainly restrict any type of business that would give the appearance of gambling. Of coarse, some of our county officials make no secrets about their love of gambling! If the city council is not aware of this they need to be and if they were aware of it then they have fumbled the ball!  The people of Johnson City who elected this mayor (who has supposedly approved this operation) should remember on Election Day this typical type of inconsiderate and rash thinking by the mayor. It does not surprise us that the mayor approved this, as this mayor (proven by his past actions) does not respect or appreciate the JC police department anyway. Remember …he wanted to disband the police just a few short years back.  

Thumbs Up for Police Chief Glen DuBois!!!

Concerned 01-24-2008 It was reported in the Johnson City Record Courier recently that our police would begin patrolling our streets for 24 - 7 on December 22,2007.  Our thumbs up to Johnson City Police Chief, Glen DuBois, for implementing a 27-7 police patrol! Twenty-four hour police patrol has been needed for a long time for the city and has yet to be implemented in the county or the City of Blanco.

 THANKS CHIEF Dubois! It takes much courage and wisdom on the part of the Chief to implement this action for the citizens of Johnson City. The citizens pay for it in their taxes and deserve to have police patrol at all times! It should have been done a long time ago.

It has been well known throughout Blanco County that there has been NO adequate 24 hr. police patrol being performed anywhere in the county areas.  And it is particularly well known within the crook community when our police are and are not out.

The sheriff was also quoted in the article as stating (something like) that he was going to talk to his crew and see if some body would volunteer.

GIVE ME A BREAK!

This is typical Bill Elsbury-Blanco County Sheriff Department-Style! Do Nothing! The fact is: no one wants to work all night within the patrol division of the Blanco County Sheriffs department. It is going to take the sheriff getting some backbone and order it done! (Like any of his “boys” are going to tell him “no”….they would lose their jobs for sure!)

It is my belief that the sheriff will not ever implement 24 hr patrol with the sheriff department deputies and that the citizens of Blanco County will continue to be without adequate countywide patrol. Though I do urge the sheriff to reconsider his position and do his job that he swore an oath to do! Oh! And was voted in office to do. It is no wonder this county has a hard time attracting new business!

Everyone understands that being a police officer has a degree of safety issues associated with the job. Each officer knows this when entering this profession and before taking the oath to serve and protect.  It is a hazardous profession and everyone knows it. There are certain things you cannot procrastinate on just because it may be hazardous.  Patrolling our neighborhoods is one of them! We depend on our city police officers and our county deputies and we need them.

Not only do I urge the sheriff to patrol 24 hr. countywide, I also urge the city of Blanco to consider these actions and to go to 24-7 patrol. The citizens of our entire county deserve it and pay for it, too.

North End Citizen

Note: This web site has been calling for 24-7 patrol since its conception. All of our surrounding counties have it and there is no reason other than pure official neglect that we don’t have it!! Most counties have county commissioners and a county judge that demands accountability.  This county does not! They simply allow this sheriff to get by with anything and over budgets for a nothing policy.  The sheriff department is the biggest form of taxpayer waste as for as what you get for the money! 

Kudos For EMS!!!

I want to give kudos to SW who stood up for what the voluntary EMS stands for.!!! She has guts and credibility

B.M

Lampasas Tx

NOTE: We thank you for you thoughts and opinions. EMS is important to all of us. Our prayers are with them. We hope that any problems and any disarray has been corrected.

Blanco County Concerned

 Year In Review

1-4-2008  Happy New Year!

The Concerned Citizens of Blanco County has made great progress for the year of 2007.

We are proud to report that as of this date we have had over 12,000 viewer/readers visit our site. This is overwhelming and much more than what we had expected. Your concerns and letters have made the difference! 

Believe it or not!

Your elected officials have gotten the message. Have they paid attention? We doubt it! But we still urge you to keep your letters and concerns coming in. If you see anything, hear anything, or have thoughts about anything regarding your local government or officials send it to us.

Over the past year, as a direct result of your letters and comments posted to this web site we have accomplished many things.

·        Informing the citizens of the immoral and wasteful spending of taxpayer’s money on (specifically) two overpriced land deals.

·        We made you aware of the county judge trying to get a free ride on whatever he wants to do to historical designation and building in Johnson City, without approval from the proper authorities.

·        We have been instrumental in getting the Historical Commission involved in the repairs of the historical Blanco County jail when the county officials quietly tried to slip that by the Historical Commission.

·        We were able to report to you inside information on the Historical Commission’s $80,000 fines placed against the county for not honoring historical designation on the county court house.

·        Not to mention, the cat was let out the bag about the excessive drinking and fights at the county fair and rodeo and alcohol beverage laws not being enforced, as well as, mere safety being enforced.

·        Your letters about E-coli in the water at the (public) rodeo ground resulted in state health officials being brought in to attend to this public health concern and resulted in the placement of chlorinators being installed on the water wells at the fairgrounds. (NOTE: Still do not drink the water as they are just putting chlorine into a bad well where sewage is leaking into the well)

·        Insider information was brought to you about severe problems in the NBCEMS and the JC Fire Departments.

·        Your letters brought attention to the taxpayers that the county sheriff department autos were being used for Burnet County politics.

·        You letters brought awareness of the low morale in the sheriff’s department due to lack of care and concern by the sheriff.

·        Your letters also brought attention to security breaches at the jail and a direct result was the removal of a propane tank that was out of code for years.

·        Your letters brought awareness to the possible illegal use of county equipment at two local taverns in Blanco.

·         

So much more awareness has been created among our county residents because of this website, and there is so much more that is not listed above.

Doing things right in our county government seems to be what we all agree on.  

Keep YOUR concerns and letters coming in!!

Our government officials have to be accountable and responsible.

YOU the concerned citizens of blanco county have got these officials looking over their shoulders.

Blanco County Concerned Citizens Website 

Sheriffs Office Still Refusing To Back Up DPS

Or Continued Do Nothing Policy??

County Judge And His “Yes” Men Commissioners

 Spend Another $250,000.00 On A

Hush Hush Land Deal !!!

12.17.2007

Concerned: We have been hearing in the south end of the county from a good source that the county officials have bought another piece of land for 250,000.00 in the north end of the county.

I just don’t understand how the county judge and county commissioners can continue to secretly spend this kind of money and latterly rape the taxpayers of Blanco County. 

If this is true, then in my opinion our county judge and commissioners have no accountability, ethics, or morals! The Commissioners Court defiantly have no allegiance to the people who trusted them with the taxpayer’s money!

 My opinion, what crooks!

Mad Taxpayer in Blanco County

Note:

Our sources tell us that yes they did buy a piece of land that is next to the sheriffs sub station.  We also confirmed the price at $250,000.00 and we were told it closed on about December 7,2007 at the county attorney’s title company! (NO LESS!!) You might know she was in on it and had to get her piece of the pie. The property that was bought, we hear, is for a new jail. Now understand property was already bought in 1996 for a new jail! It is well known around the community that this 'do nothing' sheriff we have has vowed since he was elected that there would be no new jail in Blanco County on his watch as sheriff! This is ludicrous as each year the costs have risen drastically and will cost millions more today than what it would of cost when it should have been built back when he first took office. (More tax payer dollars spent by this group of officials!) It is also well known that this current land purchase could have been made years ago for a $100,000.00 less. The county also knew it was for sale then!  This piece of property by all rights should have been the property bought for the annex when the county foolishly spent $750,000.00 for a property that could have been bought for $450,000.00.  It is for sure the county is land rich on over priced property. (Ironically, NONE of it is in the south end of the county where an annex is desperately needed!)

This now makes over 1.2 million dollars of taxpayer’s money spent on wasteful spending and in fines in the year of 2007!!! 

Remember 2007 when it comes election time folks!  You CAN make a change!  

We the people have allowed this to happen by no one standing up to run against these soiled politicians OR GOING TO THE VOTING BOOTH! (Only 13% came out to vote in the last county election.)  We need people to stand up and run against these do as they please politicians!

 Writer Support For NBCEMS!!

Concerned 12.17.2007

Being a former NBCEMS volunteer, I find that some of the responses on here are simply childish. There are still many of the same volunteers here that have been here for years and I know their intentions have always been to help the people in their community, however there have been a few people over the past few years that lost sight of what EMS is all about.

I know things did not go very smooth right after Bill Watson passed away. We voted on a new director and, looking back, I think we made the wrong decision even though there wasn't anyone running against her until the last minute when Tim was nominated, but that's another story. Bill's shoes were hard to fill and there were a lot of decisions and changes made. It wasn't long after that some people quit running with NBCEMS. It appears that there is more to this whole story and I think it started a long time ago. I think vengeance played a huge role in this lawsuit and unfortunately it's all at the expense of NBCEMS, but that is just my opinion.       

It doesn't surprise me at all that Monday Rusk would file a lawsuit against NBCEMS. I doubt it surprises anyone who really knows her. It does surprise me that she would work for 2 years without receiving all of her pay...Hmmm??? I think I would have quit well before 2 years went by if it was that important. She says,” She is simply putting a stop to people working for NBCEMS and not getting paid." She says, "If she hadn't stood up then the next person would be working for free." Well, who would continue to work somewhere and not get paid? I see how she helped herself, but I don't see how she has helped the community or NBCEMS. By saying that she basically didn't pursue it in court because she didn't want NBCEMS to go bankrupt is a load of crap. I really hope that the majority of the town has enough common sense to see the truth. Why didn't all of the other paid employees of NBCEMS file the lawsuit with her if none of them were getting paid? If it were really going on with all paid employees, then it would have easily been settled without a lawsuit being filed. Not only is she slamming NBCEMS, but how about the Fire Department too. Why not? We just have a bunch of mean non caring drunks running the community that MAKE you work for free!

Note To Self: Before anyone has a chance to think too hard about NBCEMS, make up an excuse to post something new about the Fire Dept. so nobody will focus on the true problem. 

Just because NBCEMS settled, doesn't prove anything.  

Looks like "Glad to be in Hays County" should stay there. It doesn't do any good to post untrue comments on here about people. In small towns, you can't get away with lying for very long. Nobody has total control and if you or anyone else are gone, there is a good reason for it. It looks like they made a wise choice. Get over it already!

And by the way, the well known fact that the emergency services in the county are laughed at etc... Well, I'm sure that all started when all of these people were running with EMS (Glad to be in Hays County etc...). Looks like the house cleaning should have been done a long time ago.

Regardless, I think everyone should focus on ways to help NBCEMS instead of hurting them with things like lawsuits and false statements (Glad to be in Hays County) about the new director. There's probably a good reason that he is now the director and, unfortunately, he has had to pay a price for doing his job. I have no doubt that he will pull thru just fine. Bill Watson and all of the volunteers worked very hard to build NBCEMS. Everyone should think about the lives that have been saved and all of the good things that NBCEMS has brought and will continue to bring to the community rather than wasting time on pointing out every so called "mistake" that has been made. What's done is done and there is no reason for anyone to continue to try to tarnish the reputation of NBCEMS. The volunteers and employees of NBCEMS are good people and don't deserve this. Now that all of this is over, I hope to see the community pull together and support NBCEMS because that IS what they deserve.         

To all of you volunteering, employed with pay, or employed without pay in the community-Thank you for your continued commitment and dedication to serving your community. Don't worry about the "Mondays" out there. No matter how bad things seem, they always work out. Good things happen to good people. You have my support all the way!!!    

Thanks,

S W

NOTE: Here is your letter SW sorry for the delay! It is our hope and prayer that any inner termoil within the NBCEMS come to a stop. 

More Turmoil and Controversy With the North Blanco County Emergency Services!!!

Concerned: After talking with the people of the Henly Fire dept., it seems that a local Johnson City fireman, has been talking trash again.  A Official of the Johnson City Fire Department told a Henly fire fighter and their chief, that Travis Haffelder still had charges pending against him with NBCEMS.  This is NOT true. NBCEMS has NO charges pending against him or anybody else. Mr. Haffelder did NOT break into anything at NBCEMS.  You cannot break into a room that you were given a key too!!!  There were NOT even any reports filed.  Statements were taken from the NBCEMS Director, but as always, they held no merit.  People of Johnson City, you must wonder why lawsuits happen?  It's because of the people you listen too, and take for granted that what they are telling you is true.  After reading some of the depositions from the NBCEMS lawsuit, it's no wonder that they jumped on the settlement. The officials of NBCEMS perjured themselves so bad, that they all would have been sent to the penitentiary if this ended in the courtroom. Maybe a few of these fine upstanding local citizens need to have suits filed against them.  Let the truth come out in a real court of law, and then lets see what you think about your "Good ol' boys and gals"...

   Still glad to live in Hays County

Note: It is a well known fact that the emergency services in this county and the sheriffs department is laughed at not only in Hays County but surrounding counties and through out the state! Thanks for your letter.

Concerned: Well folks...Once again the county judge and his “yes” commissioners have appointed another cronie to the ESD board.  You folks on the far north end of the county (Cypress Mill, Round Mountain, 962 West) you better take notice of what your ESD board, NBCEMS, and Johnson City Fire Dept, really thinks about you!!!!  The whole meeting was so orchestrated by the powers that be between Johnson City fire dept., and NBCEMS that a symphony couldn’t have competed with them.  One organization would bring up a subject, and the other organization would just happen to have that info in their hands.  Well what was finally decided was that you people at the far north end of the county...you DID NOT pay enough in tax money to warrant having a decent fire dept. or an ambulance stationed in Round Mountain.  Your lives and property are not worth it.  They just as soon take your money and squander it on Johnson City fire dept, and NBCEMS and when you need them they will be there if somebody can make it to the station.  The director of NBCEMS, told the ESD board that they could be anywhere in their jurisdiction in 15 minutes.  I guess that he and the ESD board think that you just turn on your lights and siren and the ambulance or fire truck is magically transported there.  Well it didn’t work on the call on 962 east an Old Stieler Rd. It took them 45 minutes to get there, as anybody in their right mind would know.  The Director of NBCEMS was questioned about the response time.  He told the patient that there was no way they could make it in 15 minutes.  The patient’s reply was...WHY did YOU tell the ESD board this?  He had no reply.  And why does it take 20 minutes to get an ambulance in town.  Was it just because it was a holiday, or the fact that none of them really care about your well being.  They got what they wanted.... THE POWER.  You and your tax dollars mean nothing to either one of these organizations.  The ESD board asked all three entities to reduce their budgets for the next fiscal year 7 percent.  Round Mountain fire dept. did...And was still reduced a total of 17 percent while NBCEMS and Johnson City fire dept got what they wanted.  How is it that for the last several years that JC fire dept. has managed to get 12,000 dollars for building maintenance, but yet nothing has ever been done to the building?  It must be awful pretty inside???  The money was spent on other things, and the ESD board allowed it!!!  And, once again, as usual the “in the know” ladies and the Record Courier reports what it wants too. The girls at the paper reported that Round Mountain fire dept, stood firm and did not reduce it's budget.  Their budget was reduced a total of 17 percent so the other two entities could get what they wanted.  You people on the far north end of the county mean nothing to these people; you don't pay enough in taxes. An official with Johnson City Fire Department said that all ya'll need in Round Mountain is old ranch trucks for fire trucks. Why doesn’t JC fire dept. have any old ranch trucks?  They have several new trucks. Even a 20-year-old 50,000-dollar truck that no longer meets NFPA regulations, you've seen it in all of the parades.  If the ESD board is going to start taking advice from this Johnson City Fire Department official, then this fire dept will soon be in as bad of shape as what Marble Falls was when he was assistant chief here.  He kept that place in total chaos.  Ask some of the firemen from Marble Falls. This man is going to tell the ESD how it should be run...right into the ground or into court.  It looks like also that NBCEMS and JC fire dept could both stand to take some driving lesson also along with maybe a mapping class.  It's a good thing that at least one dispatcher was paying attention when one of YOUR fire trucks was going to go WEST to get to a call at the Blanco/Hays county line.  You think they might have stopped when they reached Fredericksburg????    

        HFR

NOTE: Thanks for your letter HFR.  You need to realize that the local paper on the north end prints only what it wants and does not print the real news.  A good example is an accident that occurred in town recently that resulted in major injuries. If a tourist, or an outsider, had been involved it would have been front-page news! Our insiders tell us the newspaper was well aware of the accident but chose not to print and to keep it hush!  We are also being told that a major “sweep under the carpet” effort was made to keep this quite! Is something being hid here? It makes you wonder…doesn’t it?

Concerned for North Blanco County EMS

There are always at least 2 sides to every story and I would encourage any Blanco County resident that wants to know the “"Facts" about this case” to investigate the situation completely with all parties of the lawsuit.  There is usually much more to a lawsuit than what appears on the surface.

You should also know that many businesses “settle out of court” because the cost of going to court is much higher than the cost of paying someone off, not because they were doing any thing wrong.

If this Monday Rusk person was “not out for the money”, “not out to hurt anyone” and didn’t want to hurt “her” community why did she file the lawsuit?  Lawsuits always end up costing someone a lot of money and it’s always the lawyers that end up profiting the most.  I think there could have been a much simpler, less costly solution if her only concern was for current and future employees of NBCEMS as she stated.  Maybe she would like to give her settlement back to the NBCEMS to help the taxpayers she is so concerned about.  If NBCEMS had been forced to go bankrupt because of her lawsuit how would that have helped anyone?  Bringing in a private company to take over where you have a volunteer EMS or partial volunteer EMS would cost the taxpayers a lot more money.  I don’t remember ever hearing of there being a problem with emergencies being handled here in Johnson City by our current EMS.

I have worked for companies in the past that I didn’t think were completely fair to their employees but I didn’t sue them.  I just found a new job where I was happier.  And I have volunteered many hours to worthy organizations.  I can tell you that the satisfaction of volunteering far out weights anything else.  It’s too bad that Texas won’t allow you to volunteer where you work if you so desire.  It causes you to have to work somewhere else so that you can volunteer with an organization that you enjoy volunteering with.  Otherwise you could work part or full time for pay and then continue helping the agency that you really enjoy by volunteering additional hours.  Many small community EMS and VFD people are like a family where people enjoy being together while helping out their community.  These are usually very special, dedicated people in my opinion.

For years our very own dedicated EMS volunteers here in Johnson City did work other jobs while volunteering for our EMS.  Maybe we all should be asking how we can help to keep our current EMS going.

LDC