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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 th 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 th 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. th 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