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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 Services System and to the residents of the Orange County. The services are: Convalescent Transport Services • ALS Transport • BLS Transport Emergency Services • BLS Transport Medical Responder Non-transport EMT Non-transport Rescue Services • Confined Space • Extrication • Heavy Rescue • High/Low Angle • Swift Water • 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."2 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: Johnston Ambulance Service has informed County staff that it estimates transporting 350-400 patients per month with an average loaded mileage per trip of 100 miles, including patients being transported to locations outside Orange County. JAS has also shared that it maintains 8-9 units to provide the requested transport services in Orange County. z N.C. Gen. Stat. 153A-250(a).