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2 State provides services from strategically located bases in Wake, Franklin, and Nash counties. North State is an up and coming service and has received excellent recommendations from EMS officials in the above mentioned counties. Staff has conducted an investigation into the services provided by North State and have found that North State has an impeccable reputation for providing excellent customer service as well as prompt response. Staff has been in discussion with North State on ways to improve services to the community by way of providing additional services such as special events. Emergency Services staff have reviewed the overall Emergency Services 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. Staff have 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 • 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 provides 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: North State anticipates performing 90 convalescent transports per month and will add additional units as requests for service increase. By performing this needed service, it is estimated that the cost savings to the County in the first year will be over $350,000. This estimation is based upon a comparative cost analysis of a 24 hour Advanced Life Support Emergency transport model versus a 12 hour Basic Life Support non-emergency transport model. z N.C. Gen. Stat. 153A-250(a).