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Home My WebLink About17043 1 RESOLUTION NO. 17,043 2 3 A RESOLUTION TO AUTHORIZE THE MAYOR TO EXECUTE AN 4 INTERLOCAL AGREEMENT EXTENSION BETWEEN THE CITY OF 5 LITTLE ROCK, ARKANSAS AND THE CITY OF NORTH LITTLE 6 ROCK, ARKANSAS, GRANTING THE LITTLE ROCK AMBULANCE 7 AUTHORITY ("LRAA") D/B/A METROPOLITAN EMERGENCY 8 MEDICAL SERVICES ("MEMS") AN EXCLUSIVE FRANCHISE TO 9 CONTINUE TO PROVIDE AMBULANCE SERVICES TO THE CITY OF 10 NORTH LITTLE ROCK, ARKANSAS, ARKANSAS FOR A PERIOD OF 11 FIVE (5) YEAR; AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES. 12 13 WHEREAS, the Little Rock Ambulance Authority ("LRAA") d/b/a Metropolitan Emergency 14 Medical Services ("MEMS") currently holds an exclusive franchise to provide all ambulance services 15 (emergency and non-emergency) to the City of North Little Rock, Arkansas per an interlocal agreement 16 between the City of Little Rock and the City of North Little Rock,Arkansas; and, 17 WHEREAS,the existing five(5)year Interlocal Agreement will expire on or about October 27, 2020 18 and the City of Little Rock and the City of North Little Rock ("North Little Rock") wish to extend said 19 Interlocal Agreement for five(5)years through October 27,2025; and, 20 WHEREAS, MEMS has represented to this Board that it has the capability and resources to provide 21 such service without increasing expenses or rates for Little Rock citizens; and, 22 WHEREAS, this Board believes that it is beneficial to continue to have MEMS provide ambulance 23 services to North Little Rock, Arkansas and thereby promote the health and welfare of the citizens of 24 Little Rock,Arkansas and North Little Rock,Arkansas; and, 25 WHEREAS, the delivery of ambulance services (emergency and non-emergency) to North Little 26 Rock, Arkansas will enhance MEMS' financial soundness and increase its ability to deliver high-quality 27 emergency medical services to all citizens;and 28 WHEREAS,the MEMS Board of Directors has approved the extension of this interlocal agreement. 29 NOW,THEREFORE,BE IT RESOLVED BY THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF THE CITY 30 OF LITTLE ROCK,ARKANSAS: 31 Section 1. The Mayor and the City Clerk are authorized to execute a five (5) year extension of the 32 interlocal agreement between the City of Little Rock, Arkansas and North Little Rock in a form 33 substantially the same as that attached hereto as Exhibit A. 1 1 Section 2. Severability. In the event any portion of this resolution is declared or adjudged to be 2 invalid or unconstitutional, such declaration or adjudication shall not affect the remaining portions of this 3 resolution which shall remain in full force and effect as if the portion so declared or adjudged invalid or 4 unconstitutional was not originally a part of this resolution. 5 Section 3. Repealer. All ordinances and resolutions,and parts thereof,which are in conflict with any 6 provision of this resolution are hereby repealed to the extent of such conflict. 7 ADOPTED: May 5,2026 8 ATTEST: APPROVED: 9 10 ML 11 Allison Segars,City jerk Frank Scott,Jr.,Mayor 12 APPROVED AS TO LEGAL FORM: 13 14c;7,, A, 15 Thomas M. Carpenter,City Attorn 16 // 17 // 18 // 19 // 20 // 21 // 22 // 23 // 24 // 25 // 26 // 27 // 28 // 29 // 30 // 31 // 2 EXHIBIT A METROPOLITAN EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES EXTENSION OF INTERLOCAL AGREEMENT NORTH LITTLE ROCK This Extension of the Interlocal Agreement for emergency medical services ("Agreement") is made and by and between the Cities of Little Rock, Arkansas ("Little Rock") and North Little Rock, Arkansas ("North Little Rock"), cities of the first class. WITNESSETH WHEREAS,in 1984 Little Rock established the Little Rock Ambulance Authority, d/b/a Metropolitan Emergency Medical Services ("MEMS") pursuant to Little Rock City Ordinances Nos, 14,511 arid 14,574 and granted MEMS an exclusive franchise to establish and operate an advanced paramedic level life support ambulance system within the City of Little Rock; and WHEREAS, the Little Rock Ambulance Authority has established MEMS to provide ambulance service to the city of Little Rock; and WHEREAS, North Little Rock entered into an agreement with MEMS for the provision of ambulance services in 1986 which has been continually extended; WHEREAS, the existing interlocal agreement extension between the two cities for all ambulance services expires on July 31, 2026; and. WHEREAS, the governing bodies of Little Rock and North Little Rock have agreed to a five (5)year extension of the agreement, from August 1, 2026 through July 31, 2031. NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the mutual covenants and agreements of Little Rock and North Little Rock and on the terms and conditions set out herein, it is agreed as follows: 1. TERM. The term of this Agreement shall extend from August 1, 2026, for a period of five (5) years, through July 31, 2031, subject to the continuing right of Little Rock and North Little Rock to modify, renew, or extend the term by mutual agreement. Either party may terminate the agreement by giving ninety (90) days written notice. 3 2. EXCLUSIVE FRANCHISE. The City of North Little Rock has authorized by resolution a five (5) year extension of MEMS' exclusive franchise to provide all ambulance service to the citizens of North Little Rock. Wheelchair van service is excluded from this franchise. 3. CURRENT INTERLOCAL AGREEMENT AND ALL CURRENT AMENDMENTS THERETO ARE ADOPTED AND INCORPORATED BY REFERENCE TO GOVERN THIS EXTENSION. The current interlocal agreement, dated August 26, 1986, is attached hereto and incorporated by reference herein as Exhibit A, and sets forth the additional terms governing this agreement. All current amendments to the current interlocal agreement, including but not limited to, the Basic Life Services Amendment that went into effect on or about January 25, 2018 are also adopted and incorporated by reference herein and remain valid until terminated by one or both parties. 4. AMENDMENTS TO THE CURRENT INTERLOCAL AGREEMENT ADOPTED AND INCORPORATED BY REFERENCE TO GOVERN THE EXTENSION. Amendments to the current interlocal agreement as expressed in the subsequent extensions are adopted and incorporated by reference herein, and set forth the additional terms governing this Agreement, except as follows. a. Section 7 shall deleted in its entirety and the following language shall be substituted therefore: 7. OPERATIONS IN NORTH LITTLE ROCK. (a) Life-threatening emergency calls. i. MEMS shall make a diligent good faith effort to manage all available resources to achieve the response times for life-threatening emergency calls set by the Commission on Fire Accreditation International("CFAI"). Response times under exceptional circumstances,e.g., mass casualty events, shall be exempt from these requirements. 4 ii. Where an ambulance unit is dispatched from a nontransporting first-response- only status, its response time may be counted as the authority ambulance response time even though the patient was transported by a different ambulance. In addition, the response time of a neighboring ambulance service responding by mutual aid request may also be counted as MEMS' ambulance response time, provided the level of life support capability furnished by the neighboring ambulance service is comparable to that required under this article, as determined by the Arkansas Emergency Physicians' Foundation, Inc.("AEPF")and provided that reliance upon neighboring ambulance service operators is only an occasional event and not a routine method of operation of the authority. (b) Nonlife-threatening emergency calls. MEMS shall make a diligent good faith effort to manage all available resources to achieve the response times for nonlife-threatening emergency calls set by the Center for Public Safety Excellence. (c) Other types of calls (nonlife-threatening). MEMS' response to other types of calls shall be reasonable, but in every case where a conflicting demand for resources occurs, responses to life-threatening and nonlife-threatening calls shall take precedence over requests for nonemergency Basic Life Support("BLS")transfer service. Furthermore,the authority shall display sound judgment in developing its system status management plans to preserve a safe level of emergency response capability at all times by delaying response to requests for nonemergency BLS service until additional ambulance units become available whenever the number of remaining ambulance units available for dispatch falls below a reasonably established safe level of emergency reserve capacity, as determined by historical demand analyses. b. Section 8 shall deleted in its entirety and the following language shall be substituted therefore: 8.FIRST RESPONDER PROGRAM. The North Little Rock Fire Department shall make a diligent good faith effort to manage all available resources to achieve the response times for life-threatening emergency calls set by the CFAI. Response times under exceptional circumstances, e.g., mass casualty events, shall be exempt from these requirements. c. Section 10 shall deleted in its entirety and the following language shall be substituted therefore: 10.RATES. MEMS shall charge for its services within the city limits of Cabot the same rates as are charged for comparable service within the city limits of Little Rock,to include subsequent rate changes, Current 5 rates for services shall be as follows until modified by MEMS: a. Advanced Life Service("ALS")Emergency calls: $1,500.00 b. Basic Life Service("BLS")Emergency calls: $1,250.00 c. ALS Non-emergency calls: $$950.00 d. BLS Non-emergency calls: $800.00 e. Specialty Care Transport: $2,600.00 f. ALS2: $2,200.00 g. In Town Mileage: $28.00 per mile h. Out of Town Mileage: $14.00 per mile i. Crew One Way Transport: $367.00 j. Extra Attendant: $353.00 k. Waiting Time: $88.00 per half hour d. The subscription membership rates in Section 11 shall deleted in their entirety and the following language shall be substituted therefore: 11. SUBSCRIPTION MEMBERSHIPS. MEMS shall make available to all of the citizens of North Little Rock its MEMS Alert subscription membership on the same terms and conditions as are made available to the residents of Little Rock. MEMS Alert is a system. of annual membership and such annual membership shall be made available to the citizens of both .Little Rock and North Little Rock. Membership fees for the MEMS Alert program for the citizens of North Little Rock will be the same as those for the citizens of Little Rock. e. Section 12. Further Cooperation shall be deleted in its entirety. Executed this day of June, 2026. ATTEST: CITY OF LITTLE ROCK,ARKANSAS By: Allison Segars, City Clerk Frank Scott, Jr., Mayor ATTEST: CITY OF NORTH LITTLE ROCK,ARKANSAS By: Diane Whitbey, City Clerk Terry Hartwick, Mayor 6 This agreement acknowledged this day of , 2026. LITTLE ROCK AMBULANCE AUTHORITY By: Trey Williams, Chair 7