On December 5, 2006 Village Administrator Walter Cordes wrote to Cecil Osborn, Administrator of the City of Springdale, the following letter; “On behalf of the Mayor, Council and staff of the Village of Glendale we wish to thank Springdale for the splendid service that your Emergency Medical Services (EMS) staff has rendered the residents and employees of Glendale. Your city has, without a doubt, one of the finest Fire Departments in Hamilton County and all of you should be very proud. Glendale Fire Chief Michael D. Finney now has over 20 firefighter volunteers that are in training and three key supervisors have been promoted to assist him with our evolution into a viable fire department. We recently signed an agreement with the Village of Woodlawn to continue their fire service response into Glendale and to begin EMS service for a one year period or until such time as Chief Finney is confident that a dual response is no longer necessary. In closing I want to again thank you, Mayor Webster, your Council, Chief Shroyer and all of the staff that made these many years of excellent Emergency Medical services most possible. We hope that there will always be a mutually beneficial and reciprocal relationship between our two neighboring communities and whenever you have a need that we can assist with, you have but to ask.”

Residents of Glendale will not notice a difference in service or response time and should still call 911 for all calls to emergency. Woodlawn, as did Springdale, will bill the insurance companies of residents for all EMS responses. The billing system is a “soft” bill system. In the event a recipient of services chooses not to pay, they may decline to do so.

Posted:   December 6, 2006