14 Quotes by James McKenzie

Taxes bring in about $300,000 a year. Even with only one ambulance and the staff to man it 24 hours a day it would stretch that $300,000. Then, of course, there's rent and utilities and all the other expenses. The district was formed 28 years ago. How many times have we asked for an increase since then? I think it's been one time. We are trying to provide the best service we can for the area and do it as efficiently as we can.

I've heard that people are saying it cost $300,000. That's way more than it cost. We paid $165,000 for it and there were good reasons to buy it. It's larger than previous units we've had. Our fleet was aging, our first out ambulance is more than eight years old and we were spending a lot of maintenance on it.

If you don't have reliable transportation you can have the best medics in the world but if you can't go out there and turn the key and go you're no good to your patients. Our patrons have a right to expect us to be there for them.

I can assure this court there isn't a day that goes by, from now until Matthew dies, that he won't think of this, that he won't know about this,

...All that combined is a greater burden on him than we, as a state and society, can impose.