Resolution 12987CITY OF ALAMEDA RESOLUTION NO.12 9 8 7
SUPPORTING AB 2586(ORTIZ) REGARDING
CONTROL OVER AMBULANCE SERVICES
WHEREAS, the Emergency Medical Services System and the Prehospital Emergency
Medical Care Personnel Act authorizes the local Emergency Medical Services agency to select an
exclusive provider of pre-hospital emergency medical transportation services ("ambulance") for the
unincorporated area of the county and all cities within the county that did not provide ambulance
service as of June 1, 1980; and
WHEREAS, a county-wide contract for ambulance services does not necessarily take into
account the unique geographical, social and environmental circumstances of each city covered by
that contract thereby failing to respond to the public safety concerns of those communities; and
WHEREAS, in order to ensure that quality, responsive emergency ambulance services are
afforded to all Californians, cities and fire districts should be allowed to determine the best way of
providing ambulance services to the communities they serve, subject to medical control and
oversight by the local emergency medical services agency; and
WHEREAS, the City of Alameda has provided ambulance services through its Fir
Department within its incorporated boundaries since 1984; and
WHEREAS, the service provided by the Fire Department is responsive to the peculiar and
specific needs of the Alameda community, specifically that Alameda is an island connected to
Oakland by a system of bridges and tunnels which significantly impede emergency vehicle access
and passage; and
WHEREAS, the City Council believes it is in the best interest of the Alameda community
to continue providing ambulance services through its Fire Department.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED THAT the City of Alameda hereby endorses and
supports the passage of AB 2586(Ortiz) by the Legislature.
BE 11 FURTHER RESOLVED that City Staff be directed to work with Assembly Member
Ortiz on amendments which would tailor this legislation to Alameda's specific needs.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the City Clerk is hereby directed to forward a certified
copy of this resolution to the Chair and Committee members hearing the bill and to the Governor,
the president pro tempore of the Senate, the Speaker of the Assembly and Assembly Member Ortiz.
I, the undersigned, hereby certify that the foregoing
Resolution was duly and regularly adopted and passed by the Council
of the City of Alameda in regular meeting assembled on the 19th
day of May , 1998, by the following vote to wit:
AYES: Councilmembers Daysog, DeWitt, Kerr, Lucas
and President Appezzato - 5.
NOES: None.
ABSENT: None.
ABSTENTIONS: None.
IN WITNESS, WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the
official seal of said City this 20th day of May , 1998.
Diane"Felsch, City Clerk
City of Alameda