Monday, February 25, 2013
Despite a pilot program intended to reduce the burden on emergency calls in Providence, Mayor Polisena said it will not change his decision to deny Mutual Aid to the city.
Johnston Mayor Joseph Polisena said a proposal to reduce the burden on ambulances will not sway his decision to deny Providence Mutual Aid, reports the Johnston Sunrise. Earlier this month, a team of Rhode Island legislators, health care professionals, emergency responders discussed a pilot program that would divert people with behavioral, alcohol or substance abuse issues away from emergency rooms and into more appropriate places for treatment. The Sobering Treatment Opportunity Program, or STOP, is intended to alleviate emergency rooms from repeat patients. The proposal calls for transitional housing for up to 20 individuals as well as employment assistance and connections to sobriety programs and health care. According to a …
Saturday, August 25, 2012
Saying there has been no word from Providence officials on resolving the issue, Mayor Joseph Polisena announced that he intends to follow through on a threat to stop routine rescue service to the city.
Beginning at 12:01 am Sunday morning, Aug. 26, the town of Johnston will no longer provide what Mayor Joseph Polisena calls "day-to-day" rescue service to Providence. Polisena and the mayors of North Providence and East Providence had set the deadline at a press conference in June, after they said their requests for reimbursement from Providence went unanswered. Providence Mayor Angel Taveras told WPRI-TV this week that officials in the city intend to "continue to respond to all emergencies in our city... [and] help other cities and towns," the station reported on its website. During an interview at Johnston Town Hall on Friday, Polisena made a point to distinguish the "routine" type of rescue call from standing agreements among cities …
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Thursday, June 28, 2012
Johnston Mayor Joseph Polisena hosted a press conference on June 28 announcing that he and two other mayors will stop sending rescues to Providence after Aug. 26.
Mayors of three communities that border Providence — and collectively provided some 1,500 rescue runs to the city in 2011 — announced today that they will halt such service as of Aug. 26. Joseph Polisena of Johnston, Bruce Rogers of East Providence, and Charles Lombardi of North Providence spoke at a press conference at the Johnston Municipal Court this afternoon. After requesting a $500-per-run reimbursement and getting no response from Providence officials, the three mayors said today that they were frustrated and hoped that the city would address its own rescue needs — though Polisena suggested that Providence would lean more heavily on other communities, like Cranston, for mutual aid. The accompanying video (running time: 2:21) shows…
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Mayors from Johnston, East Providence, and North Providence said this afternoon that they will prohibit their rescue crews from going into Providence after 60 days.
Mayor Joseph Polisena and two other area mayors announced this afternoon that they will stop providing rescue runs to Providence starting Aug. 26 after months of trying to reach another resolution. During a press conference held at Johnston Municipal Court, Polisena, East Providence Mayor Bruce Rogers and North Providence Mayor Charles Lombardi said their communities have been providing what Lombardi called a "lopsided" number of rescue responses, and that they can no longer afford it. "Saying 'we don't have the money' is not the answer," Lombardi explained. The three mayors called on Providence to add more rescue vehicles to its fleet to relieve the burden on their towns. "I'm not the mayor of Providence," Polisena said. "My …
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Wednesday, May 30, 2012
The mayor has asked the city of Providence to refund Johnston for each rescue run into the capital city.
Providing mutual rescue aid to Providence is taking Johnston rescue squads out of the town too often, "somewhat jeopardizing" Johnston residents, according to Mayor Joseph Polisena. The mayor has joined his counterparts from North Providence and East Providence in telling the capital city they can no longer send their emergency medical technicians and fire rescue trucks to Providence without reimbursement. Polisena has for $500 per rescue run into the city, which would come either from the patient's medical insurance or the city of Providence itself. "We're just looking to be compensated. I think $500 is more than fair," Polisena said. "They claim they have no money. But we have no money. Johnston taxpayers can no longer afford to …
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Peter A. Filippi III
7:28 am on Saturday, August 25, 2012
As for Johnston Firefighters when you realize the greed of the unions if I become mayor I would work to privatize the entire department and throw out every provision in the contract that would cut the $13.6 Million budget in half. Just over the past 3 years they cost Johnston Taxpayers over 5 1/2 $million in overtime because of such provisions. Just in longevity bonuses this year it cost … more ›