My Snowplow Response Time Brainstorming Letter That I Wrote and Sent Today to Utah House Majority Leader Mike Schultz:

 I will be very pleased if this brainstorming letter I wrote and sent today to  Utah House Majority Leader Mike Schultz is helpful:

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Sent: Wed, Dec 20, 2023 at 7:27 PM

Subject: Lifesaver: Reduce Response Times of UT Snowplows

December 20, 2023

Dear Utah State Legislature House Majority Leader Mike Schultz,

I am very grateful for this opportunity you have kindly offered me to pursue leisuretime brainstorming aimed at identifying concerns of mine that might be pertinent for yourself and your Utah State House colleagues.

Among my concerns are:

----Delays by Utah snowplow drivers in responding to snowy or icy conditions on roadways of Utah could be life-threatening to many of the  motorists and pedestrians in our state.

There may be a need for a new study to identify the  percentage of stranded motorists in Utah during the most recent winter season who were each  permanently injured or fatally injured, respectively, partly or solely because of delay by an assigned snowplow driver in reaching the scene of the excessive accumulation of snow or ice in Utah.

Results of that new study could help to persuade the Utah State House to approve funds for establishment of a special "Utah Backup Snowplow Drivers Program" for the entire state. If one assigned Snowplow Driver calls in sick or is unable to respond promptly enough to icy or snowy conditions on a highway or road in Utah, an on-call Backup Snowplow Driver could be immediately  sent to the scene by a dispatcher.

---The incidence of fatigue and anxiety levels  by Snowplow Drivers in Utah may be higher than most Utahns are aware of. Would it enhance the level of efficiency of Snowplow Drivers in Utah if two staff members were assigned to team up as "Snowplow Partners" , with alternation of driving duties between the two of those staff members? I am reminded of this after recalling that police departments in Utah often benefit from assigning two officers to work as a "team of two" responding to a reported  public safety problem in their city.

---I sense that the incidence of  Utah Snowplow vehicles that break down and are disabled  under stormy and cold conditions might be higher than many Utahns are aware of.

 Should the State Government of Utah upgrade the Snowplow Fleet for our entire state to ensure that each of the  Snowplows being driven in Utah are  as first-rate and fully effective and consistently dependable as the Snowplows being used to clear roadways in other snowy and icy states such as Colorado, Wyoming, Idaho, New York State, Montana, Minnesota, and Wisconsin, Michigan, Illinois, Maine, Nebraska, Iowa,  and Massachusetts,  for instance.

---There may be a need for a new study on injury-causing delays in dispatching Emergency Medical Services   Helicopters to the  scene of a motorist or pedestrian  who is injured in a remote area of Utah or in an area where the roads are too snowy or icy for conventional ambulances to reach the scene. 

Are Emergency Helicopter Response Times in each county of Utah being monitored diligently enough at present, and if not, which state agency of Utah should be required to compile reports of that type and post those reports online on a year-round basis?

---It seems likely that many or several of  the Emergency Helicopters in Utah are not adequately  equipped to provide full Emergency Medical Services to individuals  who were injured during a storm or other natural disaster in Utah. 

Should there be a State of Utah-funded upgrading of the Emergency Helicopters Fleet of Utah --- an upgrading that can save lives by protecting the medical health of injured persons who are picked up by an Emergency Helicopter and then  transported to a hospital in Utah.

---Is there a risk that emergency rooms of existing hospitals in Utah might be  overwhelmed by and incapable of responding promptly enough to or able to accommodate   the many motor- vehicle accident victims, skiing-accident victims, avalanche or other  natural-disaster victims, and violent-crime victims  who are injured specifically during the winter season in Utah?  

If so, which options does your Utah State House have for helping to prevent or respond adequately  to "worst-case" scenarios such as severe-injury motor vehicle crashes on snowy, icy roadways that involve five or more motor vehicles and their drivers and passengers all being injured?

-----It seems likely that some or several counties or regions of Utah may be either neglected or ignored  by  the Utah State  Legislature.

 I learned recently that the Salt Lake County Council has two at-large voting members who represent me at County Council meetings. I feel sure that Salt Lake County Government  Mayor Jenny Wilson might agree that the at-large positions currently held by Sue Harrison and LL Stringham contribute greatly toward excellence in public-policy decision-making and initiatives by Salt Lake County Government.

House Majority Leader Schultz, do you sense that if the Utah Legislature were to add two or more  at-large voting member positions in the Utah  House or Utah Senate who each  represent the entire state of Utah,  this could help to promote fuller accountability and excellence by the Utah Legislature?

Each  At-Large Utah  House or At-Large Utah Senate  voting member could be required as part of his or her job duties to identify and help address public-policy issues for currently  neglected counties or regions of Utah, and any other often-neglected major or urgent public-policy issues for our state.

-----Is the financial wealth of Utahns and the overall economy of Utah  excessively concentrated in Salt Lake County at present? If so, should the Utah State House attempt to identify public- policy strategies for strengthening the economies of other counties of Utah and for  boosting average and median  per-capita income levels of residents of other counties of Utah?

---The water scarcity crisis in Utah might  inevitably necessitate an Emergency Response Plan by the Utah State House that identifies which water-intensive industries in Utah  should be ordered to temporarily  halt their production of that particular product (beer, for instance) on a multi-hour or  multi-day basis  until a cited very alarming and very extreme  short-term drought crisis in Utah had ended.

---One "industry" that the Utah House might want to outlaw altogether, if your governing body hasn't already done so,  are any and all of the water-wasteful commercial "sex parlors" in Utah, among them any of the so-called "gay bathhouses", if there are  any such businesses currently operating  in Utah, where flagrantly wasteful hoarding of water and rampant sexual promiscuity among  strangers also spawn sexually transmitted diseases, including the often-fatal HIV virus,  at an unconscionable and  very alarming rate. 

Utah House  Majority Leader Schultz, I hope this additional tentative brainstorming letter proves to be helpful to you and your colleagues in the Utah State House.

I wish you and your other idealistic colleagues a joyous Holiday Season and New Year.

Sincerely and Best Wishes,

permanent Utahn resident John Kevin McMillan, 535 South 200 East, Apt. 912, Ninth Floor, Salt Lake City, UT 84111.

My cell phone: (512) 993-7305.

My home phone: (801) 355-0850.

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