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1 <br />ORANGE COUNTY <br />BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br />ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br />Meeting Date: March 21, 2000 <br />Action Agenda <br />Item No. _ g-~ <br />SUBJECT: Renewal of Orange EMS and Rescue Squad Contract -Ambulance Transport <br />Service <br />DEPARTMENT: Emergency Management PUBLIC HEARING: (Y/N) No <br />ATTACHMENT(S): INFORMATION CONTACT: <br />Contract Nick Waters, ext 3030 <br />TELEPHONE NUMBERS; <br />Hillsborough 732-8181 <br />Chapel Hill 9fi8-4501 <br />Durham 688-7331 <br />Mebane 33fi-227-2031 <br />PURPOSE: To consider renewing the contract with Orange EMS & Rescue Squad, Inc. to <br />provide ambulance transportation for the County's Emergency Medical Services program <br />through June 30, 2001. <br />BACKGROUND: Beginning in October 1996, the County changed its method of delivering <br />emergency medical services (EMS). Since that time, the ambulance transportation component <br />of EMS has been provided under terms of a contract between the County and South Orange <br />Rescue Squad. The contract has been renewed each year since and the Rescue Squad has <br />provided personnel far the transport component of EMS. <br />Since South Orange merged in 1999 with the Orange County Rescue Squad, the resulting <br />organization (now known as Orange EMS and Rescue Squad, Inc.) has been working through <br />various organizational issues. The 1999-00 contract was extended three times from July 1999 <br />through March 2000. County staff feels that the Squad has now adequately addressed these <br />issues and believes that the Squad is in a position to continue to provide a satisfactory level of <br />ambulance transport service far the foreseeable future. The proposed contract would cover <br />service for the remainder of the current fiscal year, and through the fiscal year that ends on <br />June 30, 2001 <br />FINANCIAL IMPACT: The terms of the contract include the County's providing an annual <br />stipend of $482,$30 (four hundred eighty two thousand eight hundred thirty dollars) to <br />reimburse the Squad for legitimate expenses incurred in providing the ambulance transport <br />component of the County's EMS program. That amount is included in the departmental budget <br />for 1999-2000 and has been requested in the budget for FY 200D-01. There is no increase <br />over the current year proposed for FY 2000-01. <br />