196.2005
RESOLUTION SETTING PUBLIC HEARING ON PROPOSED PAY RATE
INCREASE FOR DAYTIME STAFF, INCREASE IN DAY-TIME PAID
SERVICE AND CONTRACT AND BUDGET AMENDMENT WITH WEST
GLENS FALLS EMERGENCY SQUAD, INC.
RESOLUTION NO.: 196, 2005
INTRODUCED BY: Mr. Roger Boor
WHO MOVED ITS ADOPTION
SECONDED BY: Mr. Tim Brewer
WHEREAS, the Town of Queensbury and the West Glens Falls Emergency Squad, Inc.
(Squad) have entered into an Agreement for emergency protection services, which 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 or use money
placed in a “vehicles fund” without prior approval of the Queensbury Town Board, and
WHEREAS, such Agreement sets forth terms for the Squad’s provision of paid daytime
service, and
WHEREAS, the Queensbury Town Board and Squad have negotiated and agreed upon terms
for a pay increase for the Squad’s current daytime staff, resulting in a proposed increase in the amount
of $5,213 for the remainder of the 2005 calendar year, and
WHEREAS, the Town and Squad have also negotiated terms for an increase in paid daytime
service by proposing to add three (3) additional daytime staffers, arranged through Keena Staffing,
Inc., for an approximate, additional sum of $86,673 for the remainder of the 2005 calendar year, and
WHEREAS, the additional three (3) paid daytime staffers will work primarily within the Bay
Ridge and North Queensbury Rescue Squads’ primary areas of responsibility, thereby benefiting
residents living within those areas of the Town, and
WHEREAS, the Town and EMS Squads wish to add to the existing Agreement with West
Glens Falls Emergency Squad, Inc., which will save the Town and Squads money, and
WHEREAS, moneys for the pay increases and additional daytime staff are not included in the
Squad’s current 2005 Budget and Agreement with the Town, and the Town Board therefore wishes to
set a public hearing concerning such proposals and amendment to the Squad’s 2005 budget and
Agreement,
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT
RESOLVED, that the Queensbury Town Board shall conduct a public hearing concerning the
West Glens Falls Emergency Squad, Inc.’s proposal to increase pay rates for its daytime staffers, add
three (3) daytime staffers and amend its 2005 emergency services budget and Agreement with the
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Town to provide for the total increased costs in the approximate amount of $91,886, on May 16,
2005 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 25 day of April, 2005, by the following vote:
AYES : Mr. Strough, Mr. Brewer, Mr. Stec, Mr. Boor, Mr. Turner
NOES : None
ABSENT:None