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• Basic Life Support Transport Services 2. Approve the Franchise Agreement under which North State Medical Transport, Inc. will operate during the five-year period of franchise and that as a condition of the Franchise that North State enter into an Operations Agreement with Orange County within 90 days to provide for the daily operational functions of North State as it works within the Orange County Emergency Services System; and 3. Authorize the Emergency Services Director to negotiate the Operations Agreement with North State and the County Manager to sign the Agreement after review by the County Attorney or his staff. VOTE: UNANIMOUS c. Automatic External Defibrillator(AED) Program Guidelines The Board considered a programmatic guideline for the Board's consideration regarding the specification, purchase, placement/installation, use, monitoring and maintenance of Automatic External Defibrillators (AED) in County-owned and/or operated facilities. Frank Montes de Oca said that the Board of County Commissioners asked staff to look at AEDs and the staff recommends a program guideline rather than an ordinance. Attachment 1 includes the current inventory and recommended placement. It is recommended that 31 AEDs be installed throughout the County. Commissioner Jacobs asked if there would be a point person in each building and Frank Montes de Oca said yes. There will also be obvious signage in buildings. Commissioner Yuhasz asked about the annual maintenance for these and Frank Montes de Oca said about $10,000. A motion was made by Commissioner Jacobs, seconded by Commissioner Hemminger to establish the AED Program Guidelines; and allocate $16,000 annually over the next three fiscal cycles for the purchase of the AEDs, mounting equipment, and installation. VOTE: UNANIMOUS d. Implementation of a One-Week Payroll Deferral —Amendment to Orange County Personnel Ordinance Article Ill, Section 1.0, The Work Week and Resolution Authorizing the Use and Advancement of Sick, Personal and Petty Leave During Payroll Deferral The Board considered an amendment to the Orange County Personnel Ordinance Article III, Section 1.0, "The Work Week" to change the standard work week and a resolution authorizing the County Manager to allow employees to use up to 40 hours of sick leave and personal and petty leave accrued through June 30, 2011 to supplement their pay during the payroll deferral and advancing employees' sick, person and petty leave during the payroll deferral. Frank Clifton said that the purpose of this issue is that the County continues to operate on a manual payroll system and it creates lots of errors. Staff has been moving forward to create an automated system of time-keeping and calculations. One of the issues is that most of the automated systems will not pay people in advance of hours actually worked. For some reason, the County has migrated to a system that pays people in advance, mainly because of direct deposit and the money being placed in the bank ahead of the work week ending. To move to this system, there must be a one-week deferral of payroll. In order to accomplish this, the recommendation is to allow employees to draw from personal leave or vacation leave to offset any loss of income over that week.