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Recommendation to Authorize the Acting City Manager to Execute a Second Amendment to the Agreement with the County of Alameda Extending the Term of the Community Paramedicine Pilot Program; and
Adoption of Resolution Amending the Fire Grant Funds Budget for Fiscal Year 2017-18 by $142,000 for Costs Associated with the Extension of the Community Paramedicine Pilot Program. (Fire 220)
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To: Honorable Mayor and Members of the City Council
From: Elizabeth Warmerdam, Acting City Manager
Re: Recommendation to Authorize the Acting City Manager to Execute a Second Amendment to the Agreement with the County of Alameda Extending the Term of the Community Paramedicine Pilot Program; and Adoption of Resolution Amending the Fire Grant Funds Budget for Fiscal Year 2017-18 by $142,000 for Costs Associated with the Extension of the Community Paramedicine Pilot Program
BACKGROUND
The State of California Emergency Medical Services Agency (EMSA) began accepting letters of intent for their two-year Community Paramedicine Pilot Program on July 18, 2013. The Pilot Program seeks to achieve efficiencies and enhance services in community-based health care by providing training to Paramedics in 11 jurisdictions throughout California. On October 24, 2013, the City of Alameda Fire Department was provisionally accepted by the EMSA to represent Alameda County in the Community Paramedicine Pilot Program. On July 29, 2014, City Council authorized the Fire Department to participate in the Community Paramedicine Pilot Program, add an additional Division Chief and two Community Paramedic Firefighter positions, and to backfill regular fire staff, including the hiring of three limited term firefighters. On January 22, 2015, the City Manager entered into a funding agreement with the County of Alameda, which initiated the Fire Department's participation in the Pilot Program.
DISCUSSION
The goal of the Community Paramedicine Pilot Program is to determine whether Paramedics workin...
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