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as such receives a significant portion of its operational funding from the <br /> State Government. Mr. Baker, Mr. D'Amore, Burch Compton, myself and hopefully <br /> Mrs. Barnes are going in mid-February to Raleigh to confer with State Emergency <br /> Preparedness Officials to secure their help or at least advice about reorganizing <br /> our old Civil Preparedness Program as a part of our new Emergency Services <br /> Department. Following that meeting I will probably ask that the County's inactive <br /> Civil Preparedness Committee be reorganized into a group that will develop <br /> disaster plans broad enough to cover most of the disasters one might expect to <br /> occur in Orange County. I will keep you abreast of what is happening in this <br /> area in future Managers Reports. <br /> EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES <br /> Following a period of considerable unrest within the Orange County Rescue <br /> Squad late last fall I wrote the Board a memorandum recommending the County <br /> forge ahead with certain changes within the EMS area, Principal among these <br /> changes was the recommendation the County become the lead agency in EMS and <br /> assert full control over that operation. Movement in that direction was a <br /> calculated risk as the County did not have resources of its own sufficient <br /> to operate an EMS Program If either of the rescue squads or a significant number <br /> of the members of either squad were to quit. The first step we took in that <br /> direction was to request N. C. Memorial Hospital become the sponsor hospital <br /> for EMS in Orange County and assert its willingness to become the principal <br /> agency to provide EMS training. Yesterday I received a letter from the <br /> assistant hospital administrator expressing the hospital 's willingness to <br /> accept our proposal subject to our working out reasonable terms of this <br /> relationship which could be expressed in a contractural agreement. The <br /> hospital has assigned Dr. Bobzien to determine what conditions the hospital <br /> desires to have covered in this contract. The doctor has promised to have <br /> this material ready by the first of February. When it becomes available I <br /> will contact the County Attorney and we will prepare a formal proposal for <br /> the Board to review before it is submitted to the hospital . In the meantime <br /> the hospital is moving forward, I understand, with arrangements to start <br /> a E.M.T. I.V. course which will be available to qualified persons in the <br /> South Orange, and Orange County Squads and the paid County Employees. I <br /> will let you know when this course starts, how many persons have entered <br /> and most importantly from which rescue squad t)iey came. <br />