We want to keep the best students in Minnesota.

Wellington has improved things since then. We now have a specialist on in the evening but we still don't have one at night [overnight].

We are short-staffed now so any increase in load will make it worse.

We're kind of floating along, waiting to find out what happens next.

At the same time, we didn't want it to cost them more money, because we're very worried about the high cost of medical education and the level of medical student debt.

I think that what Capital and Coast is relying on is probably having someone on call rather than on duty. Unfortunately on call doesn't do the trick.

Almost all of the city employees received a 1.5 percent increase this year, and to give any more to the appointees would be a slap in the face to the 6,000 employees.