2000-09-18 Special Called Workshop Meeting

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! 0 Workshop Meeting September 18, 2000 EMS Policies/Procedures Introduction This workshop will cover several items related to the City's EMS services. Several of the topics are informational in nature and are intended to update Council and answer questions that were brought up during Council's budget workshops. These items are: • Status of Mutual Aid agreements and responses • Renewal of outside contracts for services • Morgan's Point • Association of Bayport Companies • Port of Houston • Patient transfers (by other companies) The final item - potential for relocation of EMS facility - is a long range planning issue that is interrelated to the Council's decision on the site of Fire Station #3. The City has sold $1,500,000 in G.O. bonds for the construction of two fire stations (Stations 3 & 4). We are moving forward with the necessary architectural services to design Station #4 at Mc Cabe Road and South Broadway. A design with similar features will be used to build Station #3 once land size and location is determined. Station #3 is presently near the corner of Lomax School Road and No. P Street. The location of new Station #3 will affect the way future Emergency Services are deployed and responded to. Both the 1984 Comprehensive Plan and the Draft Comprehensive Plan Update recommend the City give consideration of a fire station in the western portion of the City to provide adequate response times. If this recommendation is followed, the City would have the opportunity to review primary response areas and possibly utilize Fire Station #2 on Spencer Highway, as an EMS facility. The present EMS facility could be reviewed for expansion/remodeling to serve as the proposed classroom facility supporting the fire training/firing range facility. The administration feels that an important aspect of our job is to provide Council with relevant information relating to long range planning for the most efficient delivery of emergency services. We will, of course, follow Council's ultimate decision on this matter and plan accordingly.