RECOMMENDATION(S):
Approve and authorize the Health Services Director, or his designee, to execute, on behalf of the County, Contract #23-299-13 with the City of El Cerrito, a municipal government, in an amount not to exceed $111,012, to provide first responder fire paramedic services by the El Cerrito Fire Department within the City of El Cerrito and the Kensington Fire Protection District for the period from July 1, 2015 through June 30, 2016.
FISCAL IMPACT:
There is no County General Fund impact. All payments are funded under CSA EM-1 (Measure H). (No rate increase)
BACKGROUND:
County Service Area EM-1 was established in 1989 to provide enhanced emergency medical services, including rapid paramedic-staffed ambulance response, to the residents of Contra Costa County. On May 14, 2013, the Board of Supervisors authorized the County’s Health Services Emergency Medical Services Division approval of CSA EM-1 fire agency funding, based on a population-based funding formula, to partially offset cost to the to fire agencies providing first responder Paramedic services in Zone.
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