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2 Johnston Ambulance Service is headquartered in Goldsboro, North Carolina and is the state's largest private provider of ambulance transportation. JAS has over 300 employees and a fleet�of nearly 80 vehicles. JAS provide services from strategically located bases in Craven, Duplin, Durham, Greene, Johnston, Jones, Onslow, orange, Pamlico, Pitt, Sampson, Wake, Wayne, and. Wilson counties. JAS has a professional management team and provides excellent customer service. JAS has provided uninterrupted convalescent services to Orange County for over fifteen years. In 2000, JAS began to assist Emergency Services with Special Event Coverage. Staff has been in discussion with JAS on ways to improve services to the community and communications between agencies. Emergency Services (ES) staff have reviewed the overall emergency services delivery system to further identify for the Board services that are necessary to assure the provision of adequate and continuing ambulance services and to preserve, protect, and promote the public health, safety and welfare. ES staff identified the following services as necessary to supplement and enhance the ambulance services within the Emergency Management System and to the residents of the Orange County. The services are: Convalescent Transport Services Rescue Services • ALS Transport • Confined Space • BLS Transport ■ Extrication Emergency Services ■ Heavy Rescue • BLS Transport ■ High/Low Angle • Medical Responder Non-transport ■ Swift Water • EMT Non-transport ■ Trench Collapse • Underwater • Wilderness Search&Rescue The terms outlined in the attached Franchise Agreement have been negotiated and are consistent with the terms of An ordinance Regulating Emergency Medical, First Responder and Rescue Service and Granting of Franchise and Contracts to the Operators In the County of Orange and its amendments ("ES Franchise ordinance"). The North Carolina General Statutes provide also that the Board prior to granting a franchise must "find that the franchise applicant is in compliance with Chapter 131 E, Article 7.9Y2 The terms of this Franchise Ordinance provide for a five year franchise for the following: Convalescent Transport Services • Basic Life Support Transport Services Emergency Services • BLS Transport Services FINANCIAL IMPACT: Specific financial impacts of the proposed granting of franchise for ambulance services, by ordinance have not been fully determined. Johnston Ambulance is a private provider of ambulance services and maintains an independent budget. While the 2 N.C. Gen. Stat. 153A-250(a).