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ORANGE COUNTY <br /> BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br /> ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br /> Meeting Date: June 4, 2002 <br /> Action Age$ <br /> Item No. <br /> SUBJECT: Extension of EMS Transportation Contract with Orange EMS & Rescue Squad <br /> DEPARTMENT: Emergency Management PUBLIC HEARING: (YIN) No <br /> ATTACHMENT(S): INFORMATION CONTACT: <br /> proposed Contract Nick Waste. eat 3030 <br /> 5/22/02 Squad Letter <br /> TELEPHONE NUMBERS: <br /> Hillsborough 732-8181 <br /> Chapel Hill 9684501 <br /> Durham 688.7331 <br /> Mebane 336327-2031 <br /> PURPOSE: To consider approving an extension of an existing contract with Orange EMS & <br /> Rescue Squad, Inc. to provide the ambulance transportation component of the County's <br /> Emergency Medical Services program until September 30, 2002. <br /> BACKGROUND: The County first entered into a contract with South Orange Rescue Squad in <br /> September 1996 to provide EMS transportation. South Orange and Orange County Rescue <br /> Squads merged to form the present Orange EMS and Rescue Squad in 1991 The contract has <br /> been renewed each year since and the current contract expires on June 30, 2002. <br /> The Squad provides personnel to drive fine County ambulances used in the transportation <br /> component of EMS. This arrangement has been a part of the system design of Emergency <br /> Medical Services and allows the Squad to remain active while preventing or delaying the <br /> operational need to add County staff to carry out the task. The squad has been dealing with a <br /> declining number of volunteers, leading to the hiring of full and part-time staff and concomitant <br /> increases in expenditures. The budget request from the Squad has increased over the past two <br /> years. For FY 2002 413,the Squad proposed an increase in the stipend they receive from the <br /> County for the services they provide from about$555,000 to $775,000 annually. <br /> The proposed EMS budget for FY 2002-03 provides funding to continue the EMS transportation <br /> contract with the squad for three months, at a monthly stipend Increase of$12,000 over the <br /> 2001-02 contract. Squad leadership has indicated that the Squad Is willing to continue the <br /> existing service arrangement under the terms cited. <br />