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FIRE AND RESCUE\Bay Ridge North Qby Rescue-Set Public Hearing on Tax Exempt Loan for Ambulance Purchase—3-20-2023
RESOLUTION SETTING PUBLIC HEARING ON BAY RIDGE RESCUE
SQUAD, INC. DBA: QUEENSBURY EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES'S
PROPOSAL TO PURCHASE AMBULANCE AND USE TAX-EXEMPT
FINANCING FOR SUCH PURCHASE
RESOLUTION NO.: ,2023
INTRODUCED BY:
WHO MOVED ITS ADOPTION
SECONDED BY:
WHEREAS, by prior Resolution, in accordance with New York State Public Health Law
Article 30, the Queensbury Town Board approved the Year 2023 Emergency Ambulance Services
Agreement(Agreement)between the Town of Queensbury and the Bay Ridge Rescue Squad, Inc. and
North Queensbury Rescue Squad, Inc., and their successor after consolidation, with the name of the
consolidated Rescue Squad currently expected to be named the `Bay Ridge Rescue Squad, Inc., DBA:
Queensbury Emergency Medical Service,"(Squad), and
WHEREAS, such Agreement for general emergency ambulance services within the Town sets
forth a number of terms and conditions, including a condition that the Squad will not purchase or enter
into any binding contract to purchase any piece of apparatus, equipment, vehicles, real property, or
make any improvements that would require the Squad to acquire a loan or mortgage without prior
approval of the Town Board, and
WHEREAS, the Squad has advised the Town Board that it wishes to sell its year 2016 E
series ambulance for fair market value and purchase a 2024 Ford F-350 Demers Brand Ambulance
at a purchase price not to exceed $300,000, and
WHEREAS, the Ambulance will be owned and used by the Squad to provide general
emergency ambulance services to the Town and maintained at the Squad's building located at 1109
Ridge Road in the Town of Queensbury,New York, and
WHEREAS,the Squad plans on paying for the proposed,new Ambulance by using:
1. $ 20,000—approximate cash down payment; and
2. $280,000 - maximum amount of tax-exempt financing with the Adirondack Trust
Company; and
WHEREAS, the Town Board wishes to set a public hearing concerning the Squad's proposed
purchase, as Town Board approval of such proposed purchase is required by the Squad's Agreement
with the Town, and such proposed tax-exempt financing requires a public hearing under the Internal
Revenue Code,
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT
RESOLVED, that the Queensbury Town Board shall conduct a public hearing concerning the
Bay Ridge Rescue Squad, Inc., DBA: Queensbury Emergency Medical Service's proposed
Ambulance purchase delineated in the preambles of this Resolution and the financing of such proposed
purchase using tax-exempt financing, on Monday, April 17t', 2023 at 7:00 p.m., and
BE IT FURTHER,
RESOLVED, that the Town Board hereby authorizes and directs the Queensbury Town Clerk
to publish a Notice of Public Hearing in the Post-Star Newspaper once at least fourteen(14) days prior
to the Public Hearing.
Duly adopted this 20t'day of March, 2023,by the following vote:
AYES
NOES
ABSENT: