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THURS., JUNE 6, 2024
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NCMC Trustees First Responders Visit Summer School Approve Hires and Change June Board Meeting Date The North Central Missouri College Board of Trustees met in regular session on May 28, 2024. During the meeting, Trustees heard communication reports. They took action on purchases, a personal day proposal, the SAIL program fee, a June board meeting date change, and several personnel items. During the communication reports, various updates were shared. Shellee Castanada, Savannah Campus Resource Center Coordinator, provided information on the Savannah Resource Center. Nate Gamet, Athletic Director, discussed future plans for improvement for the Ketcham Center and athletics. Sue Ewigman, Head Start Director, shared information on the self-assessment and goals, including the COLA increase and distribution. Janet Gott, Head Start Director, discussed a recent site visit, infant and toddler centers, and Early Head Start. Dr. Tristan
Londre, Vice President of Academic Affairs, provided information on summer intersession and summer sessions, including a surge in Early College, the start of the Upward Bound program, and yearend closeout. Dr. Kristen Alley, Vice President of Student Affairs, shared information on the biennial review, Title IX changes for pregnant and parenting students, OAR dates and attendance, commencement, and the possibility of adding additional ceremonies due to increased graduates and crowd attendance. Jennifer Triplett, Chief Information Officer, provided updates on email security projects, Proofpoint email security, electronic forms, ticketing system, turnItIn, and renewal of several services and software systems. Dr. Lenny Klaver, President, shared information on recent events including commencement, MCCA [See NCMC, Page 2]
Grundy County First Responders recently visited Trenton R-IX summer school. Students had the opportunity to visit with first responders and tour their emergency vehicles. The event was sponsored by BTC Bank. Photos courtesy of Brenda Thorme
County Commissioners Meet in Regular Session The Grundy County Commissioners met in regular session on Tuesday, May 28 at the Commissioners Chamber in Trenton. The Commissioners received Mark McLaughlin of the R-T, who was seeking information on the Sheriff’s pay dispute, and was referred to CCMA attorney Ivan Schroeder for information and comment. Correspondence on a project from Green Hills Regional Planning Commission was placed on hold until Sheriff Herring meets with the commission. A call was received from Cameron Northwest Electric requesting gravel to be placed where trenching work had been done at Mockingbird Hill tower site. The Commission approved minutes for June 13, 2023, June 20, 2023, June 27, 2023, July 03, 2023, July 4, 2023 and closed session December 27, 2023. Motion to approve by Commissioner Sager, and seconded by Commissioner Chumbley. Motion passed. The Commissioners signed pay
documents for MODOT for bridge 04900141-BRO-RO40 (29). The Commissioners approved payroll and and bills, and signed and submitted checks to the County clerk’s office. Bonding paperwork was completed for Bridge 00900131BRORO40 (28). It was noted that az duplicate copy had been sent to Grundy County. The Commissioners announced that the Rural Fire and Ambulance radio system had been completed at the LEC and Mockingbird Hills Tower site, and were fully operational. The Commissioners heard a monthly report from Grundy County Rural Ambulance Director Matt Walker. Walker discussed the PQC Forum on rural maternal health held May 21, 2024 at the Litton Ag Campus. Walker told the Commission that there was a broad discussion on pre and post natal care and the lack thereof, and how that has adversely affected OB patient outcomes in a more indirect way than
EMS are used to considering. The problem of these services being absent in a large swath of geography cannot be addressed in any meaningful way by anything less than returning those services to the area. Having more birthing centers, putting midwives to work in clinic sites, haveing telehealth on ambulances are all ideas with merit and advantages, but none of that is going to change the fact that patients with severe postpartum hemorrhage, for example, are very likely to die in the back of an ambulance when the transport time to the nearest facility capable of performing the definitive (surgical) intervention is an hour or more. Walker went on to liken the problem of OB emergencies to be every bit as critical as it is with strokes, STEMIs, and Severe traumas, but helicopters don’t fly OB patients. Walker said that ground ambulances are not equipped to offer interventions in these kinds of scenarios. “Every second definitive care is deleted in an OB emergency is a
step closer to a deadly outcome,” Walker said. Walker added that a proposed solution was a consortium, one that providers of all scope could belong to that would help them obtain and retain the required training and credentials for OB emergency care, a consortium that could have agreements in place with strategically located hospitals to maintain a space and a chace of equipment for us in OB emergencies, so if an OB emergency occurred in that hospital’s local area the providers of the consortium could could be activated to respond to that facility and take over the emergency care of that patient, relkieving the financial burden of legal liability but maintaining the capacity for definitive intervention for OB emergencies in local facilities. In other items, Walker revealed that an Emergency Management/Exercise Planning Meeting was conducted at the Courthouse May 23. The group continued planning of the exercise [See County, Page 2]
Briefs... “Hiding Place” Tickets
Art's Alive is pleased to host “The Hiding Place The Musical”, Thursday, June 6 at 7 p.m. at the Trenton High School Performing Arts Center. Doors will open at 6 p.m. and there are still a few seats available. General admission tickets are $10 for adults and $5 for students and may be purchased at the door Thursday night. No advanced reserved seating is available.
Check out the Farmer’s Market at Sesquicentennial Park Saturday morning from 8 - 12.