142101 RESOLUTION NO. 14,210
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3 A RESOLUTION TO EXTEND THE EXISITING INTERLOCAL
4 AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE CITY OF LITTLE ROCK, ARKANSAS,
5 AND PULASKI COUNTY, ARKANSAS, WHICH GRANTS THE LITTLE
6 ROCK AMBULANCE AUTHORITY AN EXCLUSIVE FRANCHISE TO
7 PROVIDE EMERGENCY MEDICAL HEALTH CARE AMBULANCE
8 SERVICES; TO MODIFY TWO (2) CLAUSES OF THE EXISTING
9 AGREEMENT THAT ARE NO LONGER RELEVANT; AND FOR OTHER
10 PURPOSES.
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12 WHEREAS, the City of Little Rock, Arkansas ("the City"), and Pulaski County, Arkansas ("the
13 County"), executed an Interlocal Agreement for the provision of Emergency Medical Health Care
14 Ambulance services on October 26, 1995, pursuant to Little Rock, Ark., Resolution No. 9,554 (November
15 21, 1995), which formally ratified such an agreement and extension; and,
16 WHEREAS, it is desired to extend this existing Interlocal Agreement for an additional five (5) years
17 at this time; and,
18 WHEREAS, two (2) provisions of the original Interlocal Agreement are no longer applicable and
19 should be removed;
20 NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF THE CITY
21 OF LITTLE ROCK, ARKANSAS:
22 Section 1. The Board of Directors hereby authorizes a five (5)-year extension of the Interlocal
23 Agreement between the City of Little Rock, Arkansas, and Pulaski County, Arkansas, granting the Little
24 Rock Ambulance Authority, doing business as Metropolitan Emergency Medical Services or MEMS, for
25 the unincorporated areas of Pulaski County to begin on October 27, 2015.
26 Section 2. The Board of Directors notes, and subject to the agreement of the Pulaski County Quorum
27 Court, modifies Section 2 of the Interlocal Agreement to read as follows:
28 EXCLUSIVE FRANCHISE. Pulaski County shall grant by ordinance to the Authority
29 an exclusive franchise to provide all ambulance service to the citizens of the unincorporated
30 areas of Pulaski County, as now existing or as modified during the term of this agreement.
31 Section 3. The Board of Directors notes, and subject to the agreement of the Pulaski County Quorum
32 Court, modifies Section 5 of the Interlocal Agreement, to delete Subsection (b) of Section 5, and to
33 redesignate the remaining paragraphs of the section accordingly.
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1 Section 4. Severability. In the event any title, section, paragraph, item, sentence, clause, phrase, or
2 word of this resolution is declared or adjudged to be invalid or unconstitutional, such declaration or
3 adjudication shall not affect the remaining portions of the resolution which shall remain in full force and
4 effect as if the portion so declared or adjudged invalid or unconstitutional were not originally a part of the
5 resolution.
6 Section 5. Repealer. All laws, ordinances, resolutions, or parts of the same, that are inconsistent with
7 the provisions of this resolution, are hereby repealed to the extent of such inconsistency.
8 ADOPTED: October 5, 2015
9 ATTEST.
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12 `tp..: „ , City Clerk
13 APPR r : AS TO LEGAL FORM:
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16 Thomas M. Carpenter, City Attorney
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APPRO
Mark Stodola, Mayor
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