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Now, maybe we shouldn't use the employment commission, maybe we should do it in- house, maybe we should go to colleges, but I am not sure the college people are the ones that are going to be firefighters. But, if that is something that you all think that we need to do. We can do that. Haynes The Plano and Plano Fire. High Plano, Tyler goes to colleges. Malone With what they pay, they might get some college people that want to go over there and be firefighters, because they can work that job and then work another position, and they can make more than $100,00.00 a year as a firefighter because they have a good paying firefighter's job and they've got a second career, but we don't pay like that. High True, but those same school districts are there too and Paris is there, and we don't pay like they do. But, you will find some individuals who don't want to go to the cities. They are looking for a safe community in which to live and raise their family, and those are the ones we recruit. Armstrong We don't have a staff of RN's and all our technical people in a hospital because we pay more. We pay less, and we have to sell Paris, we have to sell the institution. This is a place where you want to work. We have to do something in the community and if we all haven't them sold on that, we don't keep them. Fisher Same thing with Doctors. Doctor's wives hate Paris. They have nothing to do but sit in the house. We have to work on selling the community, and we are going to have to do that. High A lot of kids from Mt. Pleasant, Sulphur Springs, Greenville, Sherman, Bonham will apply for employment with us because they have family or relatives or other ties to this community. They want to be close enough home that they can drive over and get a free meal on Sunday, but they want to be far enough away so the family is not in their business.