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Home My WebLink About09212 ORD - 01/29/1969JKH:1 -29 -69 0 AN ORDINANCE AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO EXECUTE, FOR AND ON BEHALF OF THE CITY, A CONTRACT WITH EACH AMBULANCE SERVICE OPERATOR DESIRING TO ENTER INTO EMERGENCY SERVICE AMBULANCE OPERATION WITH THE CITY, SAID CON- TRACT TO BE SUBSTANTIALLY IN THE FORM ATTACHED HERETO AND MADE A PART HEREOF; AMENDING THE BUDGET SO AS TO APPROPRIATE AND REAPPROPRIATE $14,000 FROM THE GENERAL FUND FOR PAYMENT IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE AFORESAID CONTRACT; AND DECLARING AN EMERGENCY. BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS: SECTION 1. THAT THE CITY MANAGER BE, AND HE IS HEREBY, AUTHORIZED TO EXECUTE, FOR AND ON BEHALF OF THE CITY, A CONTRACT WITH EACH AMBULANCE SERVICE OPERATOR DESIRING TO ENTER INTO EMERGENCY SERVICE AMBULANCE OPERATION WITH THE CITY, SAID CONTRACT TO BE SUBSTANTIALLY IN THE FORM ATTACHED HERETO AND MADE A PART HEREOF. SECTION 2. THAT THE BUDGET BE, AND THE SAME IS HEREBY, AMENDED $O AS TO APPROPRIATE AND REAPPROPRIATE $14,000 FROM THE GENERAL FUND FOR PAYMENT OF EMERGENCY SERVICE AMBULANCE OPERATIONS IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE AFORESAID CONTRACTS. SECTION 3. THE NECESSITY FOR THE CITY TO PROVIDE ADEQUATE EMERGENCY AMBULANCE SERVICE FOR THE CITIZENS OF THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI WITHOUT DELAY CREATES A PUBLIC EMERGENCY AND AN IMPERATIVE PUBLIC NECES- SITY REQUIRING THE SUSPENSION OF THE CHARTER RULE THAT NO ORDINANCE OR RESOLUTION SHALL BE PASSED FINALLY ON THE DATE OF ITS INTRODUCTION AND THAT SUCH ORDINANCE OR RESOLUTION SHALL BE READ AT THREE SEVERAL MEETINGS OF THE CITY COUNCIL, AND THE MAYOR HAVING DECLARED SUCH EMERGENCY AND NECESSITY TO EXIST, HAVING REQUESTED THE SUSPENSION OF SAID CHARTER RULE AND THAT THIS ORDINANCE BE PASSED FINALLY ON THE DATE OF ITS INTRODUCTION AND TAKE EFFECT AND BE IN FULL FORCE AND EFFECT FROM AND AFTER ITS PASSAGE, IT IS ACCORDINGLY SO ORDAINED, THIS THE 29TH DAY OF JANUARY, 1969. ATTE TY $ eq ET Y / Y V/ J THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS APPROVED: DAY 0 JANUARY, 1969: CITY ATTO EY )21!? CONTRACT This is a contract between the City of Corpus Christi, hereinafter called City, and hereinafter called Operator. Whereas, Operator is now performing a vital service in providing ambulance service; and Whereas, it is now the policy of the City to offer financial assistance to operators who stand ready to provide the public with ambulance service 24 hours a day, seven days a week and who assume the obligation to respond to ambulance service assigned through the Police Dispatcher; and Whereas, it is the intention of City to enter simultaneously into contracts with the five Operators who now are able to provide said service, said Operators being, Clifford Jackson Funeral Homes, Custom Ambulance Service, Maxwell P. Dunne Funeral Service, Inc., Gonzalez -Cantu Funeral Home, and Ross Iangham Mortuary; therefore Be it known that the City and Operator have agreed to a contract with the following provisions: (1) City agrees to pay Operator $5.00 for each call for ambulance service which is assigned through the Police Dispatcher. (2) When the Police Dispatcher receives information which, in his judgment, indicates that ambulance service is needed, said Dispatcher shall call the Operator on the rotation list, as provided for by the Ambulance Ordinance of this City, and shall dispatch said ambulance to the location where said service is needed. When the Dispatcher gives the Operator an assignment he will, at the same time, give the Operator a call number. The Dispatcher shall assign a different ambulance call number for each ambulance he dispatches on an ambulance run. (3) Operator shall be entitled to be paid when he begins a run at the request of the Police Dispatcher regardless of any service which may or may not be rendered after the run has begun. (4) When the Police Dispatcher notifies Operator than an ambulance service is needed, said Operator is required to respond to that call if he is physically and mechanically able to do so. In the event Operator is unable to respond to such call, he shall notify the Police Dispatcher immediately of such inability so CONTRACT Page 2 that the Dispatcher may promptly summon the next Operator on the rotation list promptly. (5) Operator shall maintain a separate record of calls assigned by the Police Dispatcher; said record shall contain at least (a) date the call is made, (b) location dispatched to, and (c) the ambulance call number. Said record shall be open to inspection by the City Manager or his designated representative, at all times during regular business hours of the Operator. (6) At the end of each month, Operator shall submit a statement to the City Health Officer showing the number of runs made in the previous month and the ambulance call number and date of each call. Within 30 days the City shall make payment to the Operator in accordance with Paragraph 1; provided, however, the 30 -day payment does not apply to any call which is challenged by the City as being outside the terms of this contract. (7) An Operator who is "on call" in accordance with the police rotation list shall not refer a call he receives for ambulance service to the Police Dispatcher and then accept said call when requested to do so by the Police Dispatcher. (8) Operator and his employees shall comply with all State laws and City ordinances relating to the operation of an ambulance. (9) If Operator does have a two -way radio in any ambulance which is on the frequency assigned to the Corpus Christi Police Department, the City will provide, without charge, frequency checks and adjustments at least twice a year. (10) It is the intent of the parties to this contract that no similar contract for additional ambulance service will be entered into with any other Operator unless said Operator has the capacity to perform ambulance service 24 hours a day, seven days a week and there is a public necessity for additional ambulance service other than that rendered by the five Operators named above. The City shall be the sole judge of the capacity of such additional Operator to provide adequate service and whether there exists a public necessity for such additional ambulance service. 0ONTRACT • Page 3 (11) Within ten days after the effective date of this ordinance, Operator shall provide the City with a complete schedule of rates charged for ambulance service and first aid in connection with said service. If, during the term of this contract, Operator amends his schedule of rates, said Operator shall provide the City with a written copy of such amendment within five days after said amendment is put into effect. This contract may be canceled if the City Council determines that any charge for service is unreasonable in the light of prevail- ing local circumstances. (12) The payment referred to in this contract shall not apply to a request from the Police Dispatcher to an Operator for the purpose of removing a dead body. When it becomes necessary to remove a body and no member of the immediate family is available or indicates what disposition should be made of the body, the Dispatcher shall call the Operator "on call" who has mortuary facilities. (13) If the Operator does business under this contract with an ambulance more than five years old, as determined by the model year, he shall be required to take said ambulance to the Corpus Christi Police Station at least once every 60 days for an inspection to insure that said ambulance is in proper condition and meets all requirements of the State of Texas and the City of Corpus Christi relating to ambulance equipment. This contract shall be effective at 12:00 midnight December 15, 1968, and shall expire at midnight December 31, 1969. Either party may terminate this contract without cause by giving the other party notice in writing at least 60 days prior to the date of said cancellation. Executed in duplicate this day of , 1969. CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI BY ATTEST: R. Marvin Townsend, City Manager City Secretary APPROVED: DAY OF 1969. City Attorney By CORPUS CHRISTij CHRISTI TEXAS � -�i L p �l±f f TO THE MEMBERS OF THE CITY COUNCIL CORPUS CHRISTI TEXAS FOR THE REASONS SET FORTH IN THE EMERGENCY CLAUSE OF THE FOREGOING ORDINANCES A PUBLIC EMERGENCY AND IMPERATIVE NECESSITY EXIST FOR THE SUSPEN- SION OF THE CHARTER RULE OR REQUIREMENT THAT NO ORDINANCE OR RESOLUTION SHALL BE PASSED FINALLY ON THE DATE IT 15 INTRODUCED, AND THAT SUCH ORDINANCE OR RESOLUTION SHALL BE READ AT THREE MEETINGS OF THE CITY COUNCIL; I, THEREFORE REQUEST THAT YOU SUSPEND SAID CHARTER RULE OR REQUIREMENT AND PASS THIS ORDI- NANCE FINALLY ON THE DATE IT IS INTRODUCED, OR AT THE PRESENT MEETING OF THE CITY COUNCIL. RESPECTFULLY, / MAYOR ~ THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS THE CHARTER RULE WAS SUSPENDED BY THE FOLLOWING VOTE: JACK R. BLACKMON RONNIE SIZEMORE V. A. "DICK" BRADLEY, JR. P. JIMENEZ, JR., M.D. GABE LOZANO, SR. /eI� KEN MCDAN I EL W. J. "WRANGLER" ROBERTS THE ABOVE ORDINANCE WAS PASSED BY THE FOLLOWING VOTE: JACK R. BLACKMON V BONNIE S12EMORE V. A. "DICK" BRADLEY JR. P. JIMENEZ, JR., M.D. GABE LOZANOj SR. KEN MCDANIEL W. J. "WRANGLER" ROBERTS �