TKC BREAKING NEWS!!! KANSAS CITY PUBLIC SAFETY PRICE SPIKE: CITY HALL IMPOSING 'LIFT ASSIST' FEES FOR KCFD!!!
Here's the basics and what City Hall doesn't want locals to understand . . .
SENIORS WHO NEED HELP FROM KCFD CONFRONT HIGHER PRICES THANKS NEW UPCOMING CITY HALL LEGISLATION!!!
Consultants and newsies will try to explain this one away but providing links to the legislation is more productive:
ORDINANCE NO. 180615 - Amending and adding a new section to Chapter 2, Code of Ordinances, by adding a new Section 2-234 creating a fee for lift assists provided by the Fire Department to certain facilities.
Now the legislation states "a residential care facility, assisted living facility, intermediate care facility, or skilled nursing facility or that meets the definition . . . Shall pay a fee to the fire department when the fire department has provided a lift assist at any such facility."
However, this ordinance is so nasty that nobody on the Council wanted to put their name on it. Anybody who knows how these places works realizes the costs will be transferred directly to the old school residents of this town . . . Moreover . . .
THIS MOVE IS A BETRAYAL OF KCFD AMBULANCE SERVICE TAKEOVER PROMISES CLAIMING THAT 'LOCAL CONTROL' WOULD KEEP PRICES DOWN!!!
Even worse . . . There are tons of implications of this legislation that impact all of KCMO . . . Activists frustrated with higher crime are usually smacked down with how much City Hall spends on public safety . . . And now we see the cost to the public for those services increasing.
In the final analysis, this lift assist price spike is quite literally Kansas City bilking people in desperate need.
You decide . . .
Okay, I sometimes give you crap for being a geezer blog but this one is important. We all have somebody in one of these facilities and this is nothing but just another tax.
ReplyDeleteThanks Sly!
Put 20 bucks in your granny's pocket with a little note: Here's the cash for helping me, KCMO! Thanx.
DeleteGo4KC. This is momentum!
ReplyDeleteDefinitely just another tax but makes one wonder what the current taxes which are paid to fund the KCFD are used for. Current taxes paid and used to fund the KCFD must cover lift fees unless somebody is getting a kickback.
ReplyDeleteHope none of the 24,999,999 anally tourists needs a lift from the KCFD.
^^KCFD responds to dozens of these types calls daily. It's a strain on resources. They should pay more it. Geezers are some of the biggest takers in this economy. They are justified to ask for cash.
ReplyDeleteThis isn't charging individuals, the ordinance says that it charges nursing homes. Shouldn't nursing homes have the staff available to provide services to their residents?
ReplyDeleteThese places need to hire more staff if they can't do the very basic work of tending to the people who live there because the job of the fire department is not acting as nursing homes employees.
Ultimately, the Kansas City taxpayers would be subsidizing inappropriate use of city services. So its the taxpayers that benefit. And it can't be free to send fire trucks to a nursing facility so that money has to come from somewhere, what would be the taxpayers.
At least we have a streetcar.
ReplyDeleteDon't forget the bicycle lanes
Delete^^^ And a really, really nifty Hotel - and we're going to get a
ReplyDeleteSUPER DUPER AIRPORT! (If we ever find out what it's going to look like, and what it's going to cost, and when construction's going to start, and hen it'll be open, and...)
^^^and you'll be dead, so we we won't be subject to garbage like this again.
ReplyDeleteI'd rather they be doing Lift Assists than aying Xbox or managing their personal business at the station.
ReplyDelete"Rescue" is a big part of what they do. Evaluate the actual manpower needed. Just send an ambulance with two Meatheads instead of the entire company. If two can't lift an elderly person, then get a real Firefighter to take their place.
The world gets worse in KC everyday. I hope one day we do something right. I bought a house in KCMO in the last few years and I regret it. Not because of my house...it's great and in a wonderful neighborhood, but I regret it because I should have moved to a suburb on the Kansas side because they are run so much better than the shit show we have here.
ReplyDeleteI would love to have Merriam's problem where the biggest deal is our city swimming pool is twenty percent smaller than originally planned. Better than having dysfunctional schools, taxes galore that only hold down poor people, and incompetent people taking advantage and race baiting
ReplyDeleteGo4KC look up the meaning of momentum! Your post doesn't make any sense unless of course you are talking about how fast and the use of force to get it done. Or are talking about momentous.
Some advice 8:27AM sell your fucking house. Get the fuck off this blog, and for the love of GOD, stop bitching! YOU are part of the problem! Jesus, nobody wants to hear your sad fucking life story. God you're so fucking dull!
ReplyDelete7:44 got it right.
ReplyDelete8:28 Look up sarcasm.
ReplyDeleteAnd Craig Glazer is still dead.
ReplyDeleteNormally I hate everything city hall does, but this is fine as long as lift assist definition stays the same.
ReplyDeleteWhat this says is that nursing homes that do not have strong people on staff can no longer call the fire department to help them lift people. I'd be fucking pissed if my house burned down or my neighbor was having a heart attack and the fire dept couldnt come to the rescue because the nursing home that is getting paid to provide a service cannot.
If the fee is too high, the nursing homes will get Two Men and a Truck to be on call to them 24/7.
This is the story of companies taking advantage of city services.
The new ammo tax will more than cover the geezer patrol and the sponge off the street and tow the car patrol.
ReplyDelete739 is a fucking idiot named don
ReplyDeleteThe precedent here is dangerous and some of the readers get it. When KCFD starts charging, they won't stop. Are schools next what about offices. This is a slippery slope to be sure and all of KC is at risk.
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