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<br />12 <br />assessment. Many of the easy-to-do recommendations were implemented as they <br />were identified; others will be put into place during the next few months; and <br />still others have been assigned to a new standing committee of the Council for <br />further refinement. Norm Gustaveson, Chair of the Task Force, summarized the <br />recommendations as included in the agenda. This has been a three-year process <br />with volunteers who are all very highly qualified experts in their own field. <br />The main goal or concern throughout the process has always been patient <br />outcome. The EMS Council will be the ongoing body to oversee the strategic <br />planning process. He stressed the importance of public education, public <br />perception and public feedback. Dr. Tom Griggs summarized the next phase and <br />said that the challenge is to restructure what they are doing to make it <br />better at a reasonable cost or continuing what they are doing and make it <br />better by throwing more money into it. What the Council will be looking at <br />will be separating the two operations of transporting emergencies and <br />transporting non-emergencies. They want to be able to take better care of <br />people and create the outcomes they want to happen. <br />The Board received the report as information. <br />XI. APPOINTMENTS - NONE <br />XII. MINIITES - NONE <br />XIII. CLOSED SESSION <br />XIV. ADJOIIRNMENT <br />With no other items to come before the Board, Chair Carey adjourned the <br />meeting. The next regular meeting will take place on December 20, 1994 at <br />7:30 in the OWASA Community Meeting Room, Carrboro, North Carolina. The <br />County Commissioners will hold their goal-setting retreat on Saturday, <br />December 10 at 8:30 a.m. at the Homestead Community Center in Chapel Hill. <br />Moses Carey, Jr., Chair <br />Beverly A. Blythe, Clerk <br />