Subject: 19453/ambul.serv./city/county
Date: Tue, 3 Jul 1990 17:16:00 -0500


       
       
                             RESOLUTION NO. 19453
       
             
             
              A RESOLUTION DIRECTING THE MAYOR AND ADMINISTRATOR
              OF THE DEPARTMENT OF SAFETY TO MAKE ALL PROVISIONS
              NECESSARY TO DISCONTINUE AMBULANCE SERVICES
              CURRENTLY PROVIDED BY THE CITY OF CHATTANOOGA
              EFFECTIVE JULY 1, 1992, AUTHORIZING HAMILTON
              COUNTY, TENNESSEE, TO PROVIDE AMBULANCE SERVICE
              WITHIN THE BOUNDARIES OF THE CITY OF CHATTANOOGA,
              TENNESSEE, AND AUTHORIZING THE MAYOR AND
              ADMINISTRATOR OF THE DEPARTMENT OF SAFETY TO OFFER
              CERTAIN INDUCEMENTS TO THE COUNTY OF HAMILTON TO
              PROVIDE AMBULANCE SERVICES TO ITS TAXPAYERS ON AN
              EQUAL BASIS WITH AMBULANCE SERVICES CURRENTLY
              PROVIDED BY THE COUNTY OF HAMILTON IN THE
              UNINCORPORATED AREAS OF HAMILTON COUNTY.
             
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        	   WHEREAS, the City Council of the City of
        Chattanooga, Tennessee will withdraw and discontinue funding
        for ambulance services currently provided by the City of
        Chattanooga effective July 1, 1992; and
        	   WHEREAS, the County of Hamilton currently provides
        ambulance service to citizens of Hamilton County in the
        unincorporated areas of Hamilton County; and
        	   WHEREAS, the County of Hamilton should provide and
        maintain ambulance service to citizens of Hamilton County
        residing within the City of Chattanooga on the same basis that
        ambulance service is currently provided and maintained to
        citizens of Hamilton County residing in the unincorporated
        areas of Hamilton County.
                                NOW, THEREFORE,
        	   BE IT RESOLVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
        CHATTANOOGA, TENNESSEE, as follows:
        	   1.	That the Mayor and Administrator of the
        Department of Safety are hereby directed to make all
        provisions necessary to discontinue ambulance service currently
        provided by the City of Chattanooga effective July 1, 1992;
        	   2.	That, pursuant to Tennessee Code Annotated
        A77-61-104, the County of Hamilton, Tennessee, be and is hereby 

        authorized to provide and maintain, license, franchise or
        contract for ambulance service within the boundaries of the
        City of Chattanooga, Tennessee;
        	   3.	That as an inducement to Hamilton County to
        provide equal services to its taxpayers within the City of
        Chattanooga, the Mayor and Administrator of the Department of
        Safety are authorized to offer to the County of Hamilton the
        City's ambulances and accompanying equipment in order to
        diminish start-up costs for ambulance services within the City
        of Chattanooga, to offer to the County of Hamilton the current
        quarters devoted to City ambulance personnel at the various
        fire halls of the City free of charge for a period of five
        years and to offer to the County of Hamilton a waiver of any
        requirement that the City's EMS personnel pay the City for any
        training heretofore received at the City's expense if such
        personnel transfer to the Hamilton County Ambulance Service,
        all subject to the provision and maintenance of ambulance
        services to the citizens of the City of Chattanooga on an equal
        basis with those ambulance services provided to citizens of
        unincorporated areas of Hamilton County.
       
        ADOPTED:   May 19, 1992
       
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