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r2 <br />ORANGE COUNTY <br />BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br />ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br />Meeting Date: June 4, 2002 <br />Action Agen <br />Item No. <br />SUBJECT: Confirmation of Plans to Purchase Replacement Initial Response Vehicles <br />DEPARTMENT: Purchasing and Central <br />Services/Emergency <br />Management <br />ATTACHMENT(S): <br />Staff Analysis — EMS, Vehicles <br />INFORMATION CONTACT: <br />Pam Jones, 245 -2652 <br />Nick Waters, 644 -3030 <br />TELEPHONE NUMBERS: <br />Hillsborough 732 -8181 <br />Chapel Hill 968 -4501 <br />Durham 688 -7331 <br />Mebane 336 -227 -2031 <br />PUBLIC HEARING: (YIN) No <br />PURPOSE: To consider confirming steps being taken by staff to purchase replacement <br />vehicles for the Emergency Management Department. <br />BACKGROUND: Since 1996, Orange County has had in place an award- winning <br />program for delivery of Emergency Medical Services through the deployment of <br />paramedics driving Initial Response Vehicles (IRVs). It is essential to this critical County <br />service that the vehicles involved be highly safe, reliable and functional. As the County's <br />fleet of IRVs has accumulated increasingly high mileage and emerging maintenance <br />issues, funds were included in the current and previous years' Capital Investment Plans <br />(CIP) to address replacement of these vehicles. <br />The Orange County Purchasing Department staff generally purchases vehicles from <br />contracts bid and awarded by the State of North Carolina. This eliminates the need for <br />the Board of Commissioners to take formal action to award a bid as long as the vehicles <br />are purchased in accordance with the Capital Investment Plan and budgetary <br />