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• EMS Quality Assurance/Quality Improvement (QA/QI) • EMS coordinator • EMS equipment • EMS certification • EMS training • EMS related community training • Paramedic services authorized • First responder defibrillation • Improved dispatch • Emergency medical dispatch • Records management systems • Traffic control systems • Vehicles for specific EMS purposes • Disaster rescue and medical equipment • Communications equipment improvements C. The Council recognizes that occupants of different categories of property use different amounts of emergency medical services. The tax rates established by this Chapter are intended to be proportional to and based on estimates of typical use of and benefit from essential services. The rates are not tailored to individual use within categories of property both because such tailoring is not administratively feasible and because the City must make Emergency Medical Services available to all residents equally. D. The tax is based on a "benefit unit" with different land uses assigned a different number of "benefit units." The weighted land use classification system was developed in 1983 by the Alameda County Emergency Medical Services District. ( "EMS District ") and the Alameda County Assessor. Under this classification system, "benefit units" were assigned to various land use types based on a County- wide survey of the demand for service generated by the land use. Non - residential uses are assigned "benefit units" based on use ranging from two to seven. E. Individual occupants typically do not choose whether or when to avail themselves of emergency medical services which are relied on in emergencies or unexpected circumstances. The value of such services is in their availability to all residents and it would be unfair to charge their costs only to those residents who actually use the services. 2