121.2024 Setting PH on Qby EMS Proposal to Purchase Emerg Equip fror Ambulance and Use Tax-Exempt Financing RESOLUTION SETTING PUBLIC HEARING ON QUEENSBURY
EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES' PROPOSAL TO PURCHASE
EMERGENCY EQUIPMENT FOR ITS AMBULANCE AND USE TAX-
EXEMPT FINANCING FOR SUCH PURCHASE
RESOLUTION NO.: 121,2024
INTRODUCED BY: Mr.Anthony Metivier
WHO MOVED ITS ADOPTION
SECONDED BY: Mr. Harrison Freer
WHEREAS, by Resolution No.: 424,2023, the Queensbury Town Board approved its 2024
Emergency Ambulance Services Agreement (Agreement) with the Bay Ridge Rescue Squad, Inc.,
DBA: Queensbury Emergency Medical Services, (Squad), and
WHEREAS, such Agreement 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, by Resolution No.: 149,2023 the Town Board approved the Squad's proposal to
purchase a 2023 Ford F-350 Demers Brand Ambulance at a purchase price not to exceed
$300,000 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, by Resolution No.: 76,2024 the Town Board amended such Resolution to
approve the Squad's sale of its 1997 Ford ambulance toward the new ambulance purchase rather than
the sale of its year 2016 ambulance, and
WHEREAS, the Squad has advised the Town Board that as the emergency equipment in
the Squad's 1997 ambulance is outdated, the Squad needs to outfit its new ambulance with
certain new emergency equipment for an amount not to exceed $86,958.90 (including the cost of
a five year warranty) and would like such cost added to its ambulance loan, thereby increasing its
$280,000 maximum amount of tax-exempt financing approved by Resolution No.: 149,2023 to a
maximum amount of tax-exempt financing not exceeding$352,740, and
WHEREAS, the Town Board wishes to set a public hearing concerning the Squad's proposed
emergency equipment purchase, as Town Board approval 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
Queensbury Emergency Medical Services' proposed emergency equipment purchase for its new
ambulance and the use of tax-exempt financing on Monday, April 15t', 2024 at 7:00 p.m., and
BE IT FURTHER,
RESOLVED, that the Town Board hereby authorizes and directs the 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 18t'day of March, 2024,by the following vote:
AYES Mr. McNulty, Mr. Strough, Mr. Metivier, Mr. Freer, Mr. Dixon
NOES None
ABSENT: None