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• EMS Quality Assurance/Quality Improvement (QA/QI) <br />• EMS coordinator <br />• EMS equipment <br />• EMS certification <br />• EMS training <br />• EMS related community training <br />• Paramedic services authorized <br />• First responder defibrillation <br />• Improved dispatch <br />• Emergency medical dispatch <br />• Records management systems <br />• Traffic control systems <br />• Vehicles for specific EMS purposes <br />• Disaster rescue and medical equipment <br />• Communications equipment improvements <br />C. The Council recognizes that occupants of different categories of <br />property use different amounts of emergency medical services. The tax rates <br />established by this Chapter are intended to be proportional to and based on <br />estimates of typical use of and benefit from essential services. The rates are not <br />tailored to individual use within categories of property both because such tailoring is <br />not administratively feasible and because the City must make Emergency Medical <br />Services available to all residents equally. <br />D. The tax is based on a "benefit unit" with different land uses <br />assigned a different number of "benefit units." The weighted land use classification <br />system was developed in 1983 by the Alameda County Emergency Medical Services <br />District ("EMS District") and the Alameda County Assessor. Under this classification <br />system, "benefit units" were assigned to various land use types based on a County- <br />wide survey of the demand for service generated by the land use. Non-residential <br />uses are assigned "benefit units" based on use ranging from two to seven. <br />E. Individual occupants typically do not choose whether or when to <br />avail themselves of emergency medical services which are relied on in emergencies or <br />unexpected circumstances. The value of such services is in their availability to all <br />residents and it would be unfair to charge their costs only to those residents who <br />actually use the services. <br />6 <br />