6614 RESOLUTION NO. 6 ,614
A RESOLUTION ACCEPTING THE REPORT OF
THE EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES TECHNICAL
ADVISORY COMMITTEE , COMMENDING THE
COMMITTEE MEMBERS FOR THEIR WORK IN THE
PUBLIC INTEREST TOWARD IMPROVED CLINICAL
PERFORMANCE , RESPONSE TIME PERFORMANCE ,
STABILITY, AND GREATER PUBLIC ACCOUNTABILITY
OF AMBULANCE SERVICE , AND DIRECTING THAT
IMPLEMENTATION OF THE FIRST PHASE OF THE
COMMITTEE 'S RECOMMENDATIONS COMMENCE; AND
FOR OTHER PURPOSES.
WHEREAS , the City Board of Directors has previously
directed an appointed Emergency Medical Services ( "EMS" )
Technical Advisory Committee to undertake and complete an
extensive study of means of making available reliable
advanced life support ambulance service, with clinically
sound response time performance, to the citizens of
Little Rock, Arkansas; and
WHEREAS, that EMS Technical Advisory Committee was made
up of public-minded citizens of Little Rock whose collective
expertise included the fields of law, emergency medicine,
finance, management, and health administration; and
WHEREAS , that EMS Technical Advisory Committee
conducted its study in a thorough and diligent manner, and
had benefit of expert consulting services furnished by the
City and financed through funds donated by the Gannett
Foundation and Winthrop Paul Rockefeller; and
WHEREAS , the unanimous findings and recommendations of
the members of the EMS Technical Advisory Committee are
found in a two-volume report prepared by the 4th Party,
Inc. ; and yl
WHEREAS, the City Directors have reviewed the findings
and recommendations of the EMS Technical Advisory Committee,
as well as the findings of the on-site study made by City
Staff, and have found the recommendations of the Advisory
Committee to he entirely sound and well founded upon careful
study and analyses of alternatives .
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE BOARD OF
DIRECTORS OF THE CITY OF LITTLE ROCK, ARKANSAS:
Section 1 . The City of Little Rock, Arkansas , with the
passage of this resolution, hereby accepts the final report
of the Emergency Medical Services Technical Advisory
Committee, and commends the members of that Committee for
their dedication to the public interest evidenced by the
thorough, time-consuming, and sometimes controversial
process of analysis and recommendation which went into the
production of the Committee' s Final Report. With the
acceptance of the Final Report , the Board of Directors of
the City of Little Rock acknowledges that the Committee and
its consulting staff have fulfilled the charge given the
Committee by the Directors, and the Committee is hereby
discharged with the sincere gratitude of the Directors.
Section 2 . As recommended in the Final Report, the
City Attorney is hereby requested and directed to prepare in
coordination with the Emergency Medical Health Care
Facilities Board, the various legal instruments necessary to
the implementation of the Committee' s initial
recommendations--specifically, and in the order presented:
A. A new ambulance franchise ordinance , with
appropriate application requirements , reporting
requirements , and franchise fee requirements , for
purposes of funding physician supervision by the
Arkansas Emergency Physicians Foundation, providing
financial oversight and further developmental
activities by a newly-created Emergency Medical Health
Care Facilities Board (to be created by separate
ordinance) , and funding the purchase or lease of a
reliable UHF medical communications and telemetry
system with full recording capability on all channels
to insure medical accountability. The maximum amount
of such franchise fee shall not exceed five dollars
( $5.00) per patient transport charged to each franchise
holder.
B. A contract and authorizing ordinance to
operate between the City and the Arkansas Emergency
Physicians Foundation, to provide for various medical
supervision services ; and
C. A contract and authorizing ordinance to
operate between the City and the Emergency Medical
Health Care Facilities Board for purchase of various
developmental and financial oversight activities ,
including analysis and advice to the City Directors
concerning ambulance rates charged by franchise
holders , and including preparation of bid
specifications and long-term financing arrangements for
the UHF medical communications system; and for other
purposes .
Section 3 . This resolution shall be in full force and
effect from and after its adoption and approval.
ADOPTED: June 16 , 1981
ATTEST: A PPROVED:( 1ile ayo
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