186.2006
RESOLUTION SETTING PUBLIC HEARING ON PROPOSED
AGREEMENTS BETWEEN TOWN OF QUEENSBURY EMERGENCY
MEDICAL SQUADS AND EMPIRE AMBULANCE SERVICE AND
COINCIDING CONTRACT AMENDMENTS
RESOLUTION NO.: 186, 2006
INTRODUCED BY: Mr. Tim Brewer
WHO MOVED ITS ADOPTION
SECONDED BY: Mr. Roger Boor
WHEREAS, the Town of Queensbury has entered into Agreements for emergency protection
services with the Bay Ridge Rescue Squad, Inc., North Queensbury Rescue Squad, Inc. and West
Glens Falls Emergency Squad, Inc., (Squads), which Agreements set 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 or use money placed in a “vehicles fund”
without prior approval of the Queensbury Town Board, and
WHEREAS, the Queensbury Town Board and Squads have negotiated and agreed upon terms
for the Squads to enter into Agreement(s) with Empire Ambulance Service (Empire) for Empire’s
provision of Paramedic 4/Critical Care Technician II intercept services to the Squads with the Squads
reimbursing Empire, and the Town then reimbursing the Squads, the amount of $175 for each
Paramedic 4/Critical Care Technical III intercept to which a response was requested by the Squad(s),
and
WHEREAS, such additional service will benefit Town residents and visitors to the Squads’
service area(s), and
WHEREAS, since provision for such service is not presently included in the Squads’ 2006
Agreements with the Town, the Town Board wishes to set a public hearing concerning such proposal
and amendment(s) to the Squads’ 2006 Agreement(s),
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT
RESOLVED, that the Queensbury Town Board shall conduct a public hearing concerning the
Bay Ridge Rescue Squad, Inc., North Queensbury Rescue Squad, Inc. and West Glens Falls
Emergency Squad, Inc.’s, (Squads), proposal to enter into Agreement(s) with Empire Ambulance
Service (Empire) for Empire’s provision of Paramedic 4/Critical Care Technician II intercept services
to the Squads with the Squads reimbursing Empire, and the Town then reimbursing the Squads, the
amount of $175 for each Paramedic 4/Critical Care Technical III intercept to which a response was
requested by the Squad(s), and the corresponding amendment of the Squads’ 2006 emergency services
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Agreements to provide for such service, on Monday, April 17, 2006 at 7:00 p.m. in the Queensbury
Activities Center, 742 Bay Road, Queensbury, 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 ten (10) days prior to
the Public Hearing.
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Duly adopted this 3 day of April, 2006, by the following vote:
AYES : Mr. Brewer, Mr. Stec, Mr. Boor, Mr. Sanford
NOES : None
ABSENT: Mr. Strough