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Agenda - 12-14-2004-5p(2) Franchise for Orange Rescue Squad 12-14-08
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ORANGE COUNTY <br /> BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br /> ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br /> Meeting Date: December 14, 2004 <br /> Action Agenda <br /> Item No. <br /> SUBJECT: EMS and Rescue Franchise Agreements (Second Reading) <br /> DEPARTMENT: Emergency Management/ PUBLIC HEARING: (Y/N) No <br /> County Attorney <br /> ATTACHMENT(S): INFORMATION CONTACT: <br /> Proposed Franchise Agreements Jack Ball or Kent McKenzie, ext 3030 <br /> by Ordinance (previously distributed Sean Borhanian, 732-21,96 <br /> under separate cover) TELEPHONE NUMBERS: <br /> Hillsborough 732-8181 <br /> Chapel Hill 968-4501 <br /> Durham 688-7331 <br /> Mebane 336-227-2031 <br /> PURPOSE: To consider approving, on second reading, proposed ambulance franchise <br /> agreements by ordinance for the two active volunteer rescue squads in the County. <br /> BACKGROUND: At the December 6, 2004 meeting, the Board of Commissioners approved on <br /> first reading proposed ambulance franchise agreements by ordinance for Orange EMS and <br /> Rescue Squad, Incorporated and Technical Rescue Services, Incorporated. The action <br /> requested of the Board at this December 14 meeting is final approval of those same franchise <br /> agreements. <br /> Both organizations have submitted applications to Orange County staff to be awarded <br /> franchises to perform certain emergency medical and rescue services. The Orange County <br /> EMS, Rescue, and First Responder Franchise Ordinance (reissued April 20, 1993) requires that <br /> organizations which provide Emergency Medical Services (EMS) or Rescue services be <br /> franchised by the County to engage in those activities. <br /> North Carolina law establishes a public hearing notice/scheduling requirement related to the <br /> granting of ambulance franchises. The purpose of the public hearing is to help the BOCC find if <br /> the franchise is "necessary to assure the provision of adequate and continuing ambulance <br /> service and to preserve, protect, and promote the public health, safety, and welfare." Once the <br /> BOCC makes this finding, it can permit the franchise by ordinance. NCGS §1 53A-46 provides <br /> that "no ordinance making a grant, renewal, extension, or amendment of any franchise may be <br /> finally adopted until it has been passed at two regular meetings of the board of commissioners" <br /> and that "no such grant, renewal, extension, or amendment may be made except by ordinance." <br /> The required public hearing was held on November 16, 2004. Staff explained at that time that <br /> prior to January 2000, there.had been two separate franchised rescue squads in Orange <br />
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