138.2020 Advance Payments to Bay RIdge, N. Qsby. & West G.F. EMS Squads
RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING ADVANCE PAYMENTS TO
BAY RIDGE, NORTH QUEENSBURY AND WEST GLENS FALLS
EMERGENCY/RESCUE SQUADS UNDER CURRENT AGREEMENTS
RESOLUTION NO.: 138, 2020
INTRODUCED BY: Mr. Harrison Freer
WHO MOVED ITS ADOPTION
SECONDED BY: Mr. George Ferone
WHEREAS, general emergency ambulance services are provided to the Town of Queensbury
by the Bay Ridge Rescue Squad, Inc., North Queensbury Rescue Squad, Inc., and West Glens Falls
Emergency Squad, Inc., (Squads) in accordance with agreements between each Rescue Squad and the
Town, and
WHEREAS, the Town’s agreements with the Squads expired on December 31, 2019, and
WHEREAS, in such Agreements the Town and Squads agreed that the terms and provisions
of the existing agreements may continue during the interim period pending execution of new
agreements which was anticipated to occur sometime during the first several weeks of 2020, and
WHEREAS, by Resolution No.: 23,2020, the Town Board authorized payment vouchers
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constituting 1/12 of the respective 2019 Contract Amount(s) for January, February and March to
the Squads under their current respective Agreements, which payments constituted advance payments
on the new general emergency ambulance services 2020 Agreement(s), and
WHEREAS, the Squads may face cash flow shortages before the new agreements can be
executed and therefore the Town Board wishes to again authorize advance payments under the current
Agreements, which if new agreements are entered into will constitute advance payments on the 2020
agreements to the Squads, such advances to be deducted from contract payments to be paid if and after
the 2020 contracts are ratified,
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT
RESOLVED, that the Queensbury Town Board hereby authorizes the Town Supervisor to
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approve payment of 1/12 of the respective 2019 Contract Amount(s) each month during 2020, if
necessary, for operations and paid staffing to the Bay Ridge Rescue Squad, Inc., North Queensbury
Rescue Squad, Inc., and West Glens Falls Emergency Squad, Inc., (Squads) under the current
Agreements, which payments will constitute advance payments on the new general emergency
ambulance services 2020 Agreement(s) if such agreements are entered into, and
BE IT FURTHER,
RESOLVED, that the Town Board further authorizes and directs the Town Supervisor and
Town Budget Officer to make the necessary arrangements to make such payments which are
authorized under the current Agreements and take such other and further action as may be necessary to
effectuate the terms of this Resolution.
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Duly adopted this 6 day of April, 2020, by the following vote:
AYES: Mr. Freer, Mr. Ferone, Mr. Strough, Mr. Metivier
NOES: None
ABSENT: None