File #: 19-00972    Version: 1
Type: Administrative Item Status: Agenda Ready
File created: 11/8/2019 In control: BOARD OF SUPERVISORS
On agenda: 11/19/2019 Final action: 11/19/2019
Title: Consider recommendations regarding a Fourth Amendment to the agreement for Services with American Medical Response West, as follows: a) Receive and file American Medical Response West's petition for an ambulance rate increase which has been reviewed by the County Auditor-Controller's Office and by the Public Health Department, acting in its capacity as the Local Emergency Medical Services Agency, to be implemented via the Fourth Amendment as recommended in item "b" below; b) Approve and authorize the Chair to execute a Fourth Amendment to the Professional Services Agreement, BC-05-168, with American Medical Response West to increase ambulance rates, to implement several emergency medical services system improvement initiatives, and to extend the term 3 years through December 31, 2022; c) Approve and authorize the Director of the Emergency Medical Services Agency to approve any rate adjustment up to five percent (5%) in accordance with Section 10.4.B.1 upon concurrence of the County...
Sponsors: PUBLIC HEALTH DEPARTMENT
Attachments: 1. Board Letter, 2. American Medical Response Agreement A04 - Attachment A_ (003), 3. American Medical Response Agreement A03 Executed - Attachment B, 4. Option to Extend Agreement dated August 20, 2013 Executed - Attachment C, 5. Option to Extend Agreement dated July 10, 2010 Executed - Attachment D, 6. A01 Executed - Attachment E, 7. Professional Services Agreement Executed - Attachment F, 8. Current Ambulance Transporation Rates for Benchmark Counties - Attachment G, 9. AMR Annual Payments to Subcontractors - Attachment H, 10. Executed Amendment, 11. Minute Order

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Consider recommendations regarding a Fourth Amendment to the agreement for Services with American Medical Response West, as follows:

 

a) Receive and file American Medical Response West’s petition for an ambulance rate increase which has been reviewed by the County Auditor-Controller’s Office and by the Public Health Department, acting in its capacity as the Local Emergency Medical Services Agency, to be implemented via the Fourth Amendment as recommended in item “b” below;

 

b) Approve and authorize the Chair to execute a Fourth Amendment to the Professional Services Agreement, BC-05-168, with American Medical Response West to increase ambulance rates, to implement several emergency medical services system improvement initiatives, and to extend the term 3 years through December 31, 2022;

 

c) Approve and authorize the Director of the Emergency Medical Services Agency to approve any rate adjustment up to five percent (5%) in accordance with Section 10.4.B.1 upon concurrence of the County Auditor-Controller and until December 31, 2022; and

 

d) Determine that the above recommended actions are not a “Project” within the meaning of the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) and are exempt per CEQA Guideline 15378(b)(4) because it is creation of a governmental fiscal activities which do not involve commitment to any specific project which may result in a potentially significant physical impact on the environment.