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<br />CITY OF SAN LEANDRO <br /> <br />STAFF REPORT <br /> <br />APPROVED AND <br />FORWARDED <br />TO CITY COUNCIL <br /> <br />DATE: <br /> <br />May 30, 2007 <br /> <br />~~mllS <br />anager <br /> <br />TO: <br /> <br />John J ermanis, City Manager <br /> <br />FROM: Jesse Baloca, Finance Directif <br /> <br />SUBJECT: FIRST RESPONDER ADVANCED LIFE SUPPORT (FRALS) AGREEMENT <br />AND RELATED LETTER OF UNDERSTANDING (LOU) <br /> <br />SUMMARY AND RECOMMENDATION <br /> <br />Staff recommends that the City Council approve the First Responders Agreement between the <br />City of San Leandro and Alameda County to provide paramedic advance life support (ALS) <br />staffing on all fire and emergency first responder service calls. The approval is an extension of <br />the last Agreement and will cover the period July 1,2004 through June 30, 2009. <br /> <br />Staff also recommends that the City Council approve the Letter of Understanding (LOU) <br />between the City of San Leandro and the Alameda County Fire District (ACFD) to provide <br />paramedic ALS staffing on all fire and emergency first responder service calls, and in <br />compliance with the City's agreement with Alameda County. The approval is an affirmation of <br />the services already provided in the City's current contract with ACFD for Fire and Emergency <br />Response Services (Section 3~B). <br /> <br />BACKGROUND AND DISCUSSION <br /> <br />In January 2000, the City agreed, by contract with Alameda County, to provide ALS (Paramedic <br />position) services on all fire and emergency first responder service calls. Since the City contracts <br />its fire and emergency response services with ACFD, a separate LOU was also established <br />between the City and ACFD. The LOU provided the City assurance that the ACFD would <br />continue to follow through with the City's obligation (to Alameda County) to provide paramedic <br />first responder advance life support (FRALS) services via the City's contractual services <br />agreement. <br /> <br />The City's compliance to provide FRALS services will result in quarterly revenue payments, <br />made by the County to the City, that will range in annual total from $259k for FY 2004-05 to <br />$291.5k for FY 2008-09. <br /> <br />The revenue is an outcome of Alameda County's contract with American Medical Response to <br />provide ambulance transport services, which represented several years of effort and planning on <br />the part of the EMS community within the County and began with the creation of an EMS Task <br />Force in the mid-1990's. At that time, the Task Force looked at all aspects of the delivery of <br />EMS within the County and presented its recommendations to the Board of Supervisors. The <br />Board then commissioned the EMS Council to implement those recommendations, with the <br />