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-1-CA 9??Aarz FFICE MEM _ RANDOM F. C. J. Webster, City Manager FROM: R. E. Minnie, Public Safety Director SUBJECT: Ambulance Service DATE: August 3, 1978 RE: This report is based on the assumption that the San Marcos Fire Department will furnish fire protection within the City limits only and furnish ambulance service within the City limits of San Marcos. The figures in this report are based upon the best estimate available at this time. The assumption is made that we will receive from the present ambulance service one fully equipped ambulance and that we will need to purchase one additional fully equipped ambulance. The figures in this report are based upon using present personnel from the Fire Department only. The ambulances will be located at the Central Fire Station and emergency service will be furnished with on duty Fire Department personnel. ' The additional ambulance will cost approximately $30,000.00, which includes a radio, recessitator, portable oxygen systems, backboards, stretchers, splints, and supplies. This ambulance should give three years of service at which time it would cost approximately $10,000.00, to replace the chasis only. Operating costs should amount to approximately $11,000.00, for the first year; this includes insurance on the vehicles, annual maintenance, annual supply and equipment cost, also annual fuel and lubricants. There will be an additional one time cost of approximately $3,500.00, for monitor pagers to be used to call up off duty firefighters whenever an ambulance is on a transfer out of the City or when a second emergency call is received. Estimated personnel cost for the first year would be approximately $30,500.00. This would cover $500.00, for training courses for the firefighters to be trained as Emergency Medical Technicians and $30,000.00, estimated cost of overtime for transfers out of the City and fill in for leave time and sick time for firefighters operating as Emergency Medical Technicians. This makes a grand total of $75,000.00. We estimate that we should collect approximately $40,000.00, to $45,000.00, for the service rendered by the ambulance service. Assuming that these figures are correct, we can operate the ambulance service for less money than it is presently costing the City for the existing ambulance service. It would be feasible and logical that as the firefighters receive their EMT training and become fully operational that we could adjust salaries of the firefighters upwards in the neighborhood of five per cent for additional responsibilities and duties placed on them. ' The San Marcos Fire Department is capable and will be ready to furnish ambulance service to the City of San Marcos, if called upon to do so. -Continued-