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Senator Jerome M. Hughes and arrests to severe cuts and traumatic
Representative Richard J. Kostohryz injuries has been averaging two
announced last week that legislation emergency runs per day,and has made as
which would enable the city of Maplewood many as five runs in a single day,is one of
to continue funding for its paramedic the finest m the nation.
program during the coming year has "These capable personnel have been
passed through both House and Senate handling themselves and the com-
Metropolitan Urban Affairs and Tax munity's emergency needs with a high
Committees. This legislation is now degree of professionalism,"Hughes and
awaiting final passage on both House and Kostohryz said."The funding enabled by
Senate floors. this bill will allow Maplewood to continue,
Hughes and Kostohryz, co-authors of and even upgrade,this vital effort."
this bill,said it would enable the con- This bill would provide Maplewood with
tinuation of a "vital life-saving effort the levy authority needed to finance the
which has already more than proven its operation of the paramedic program.This
value to the community." levy authority,subject to local referen-
The Maplewood paramedic program, dum,will be retroactive for fiscal year
which handles everything from cardiac 1976 taxes.