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Recommendation to Authorize the Acting City Manager to Execute a Sixth Amendment to the Emergency Medical Services First Responder Advanced Life Support and Ambulance Transport Service Agreement with the County of Alameda to Extend the Agreement to June 30, 2023 with an Option to Extend for an Additional Five-Year Period. (Fire 3200)
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To: Honorable Mayor and Members of the City Council
From: Elizabeth D. Warmerdam, Acting City Manager
Re: Recommendation to Authorize the Acting City Manager to Execute a Sixth Amendment to the Emergency Medical Services First Responder Advanced Life Support and Ambulance Transport Service Agreement with the County of Alameda to Extend the Agreement to June 30, 2023 with an Option to Extend for an Additional Five-Year Period
BACKGROUND
Alameda County is responsible for the provision of Ambulance Transport Services county-wide, however, contracts with four cities to provide their own Advanced Life Support (ALS) and Ambulance Transport Services. Those cities are Alameda, Albany, Berkeley and Piedmont. The original Ambulance and Paramedic Provider Agreement between the City of Alameda and the County was executed on December 14, 1999. It has been replaced by subsequent agreements.
The current agreement between the City and Alameda County was adopted by the City Council on October 18, 2011 and went into effect November 1, 2011. The current amendment will expire on June 30, 2018. An extension is necessary in order for the Fire Department to continue providing basic life support, ALS, and ambulance transport services to the community. Ongoing negotiations between the County and local Cities may result in a countywide replacement agreement prior to the expiration of this agreement.
DISCUSSION
This Sixth Amendment to the First Responder Advanced Life Support and Ambulance Transport Service Agreement will extend the current agreement through June 30, 2023, with an option to extend for an additional five-year period ...
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