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Iowa City council schedules joint entities meeting to map local crisis-response roles
Summary
Council members agreed to convene a joint entities meeting to review crisis-response efforts — including county ambulance, community paramedicine and 988/911 transfer issues — and invited community groups, county partners and crisis-service providers to present.
Iowa City councilors agreed July 8 to convene a joint entities meeting to bring county, municipal and community crisis-response partners together to review existing programs and coordination options.
The meeting will invite community responders, Johnson County ambulance and other partners to “talk about crisis response and varieties of responses,” Deputy City Manager Chris O’Brien said at the July 8 work session. Councilors said they want presentations that lay out what each partner is doing and where operations overlap or leave gaps.
Why it matters: Council members said the technical complexity of…
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