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CITY COUNCIL AGENDA ITEM BRIEFING SHEET <br />Submittal Date: <br />Originating Department: <br />Presented By: <br />Agenda Item No.: <br />10/12/10 <br />Council Date: <br />Fire Department <br />Ronnie Grooms, Fire Chief <br />11. <br />11/08/10 <br />RECOMMENDED MOTION: <br />Second reading. Move to approve an ordinance establishing certain service fees for responding to non-resident <br />vehicle fires, vehicle accidents, hazardous material spills or releases, and low-water crossing rescues and <br />attempted rescues. <br />POLICY ISSUE(S): <br />Fiscal <br />BACKGROUND: <br />The Paris Fire Department provides both emergency and non-emergency response within the service <br />area of the City of Paris and Lamar County. Increased costs associated with providing that service, <br />coupled with lean economic support, has strained our ability to properly sustain our services and <br />maintain and/or replace apparatus and equipment. Many fire departments have opted to assess a fee for <br />services (for those services which meet predetermined criteria) and do so by entering into a contract or <br />agreement with a third-party billing and revenue recovery agency. Simply stated, the Fire Department <br />identifies those responses which meet the criteria for billing, forwards the pertinent information to the <br />billing agency, and the agency then pursues billing of the associated insurance companies. The end <br />result being a reimbursement check forwarded to the City of Paris for FD services rendered. The <br />proposed ordinance only authorizes fees to be assessed against non-residents and only for vehicle fires, <br />vehicle accidents, hazardous material spills or releases, and low-water crossing rescues and attempted <br />rescues. <br />BOARD/COMMISSION RECOMMENDATION: <br />N/A <br />EXHIBITS: <br />Ordinance <br />ACTION: <br />BUDGET INFO: <br />F-lFinancial Report ❑ Minute Order <br />Expense <br />❑ Department Report ❑ Resolution <br />Budgeted Amt. <br />❑ Presentation ~ Ordinance <br />y'I'D Actual <br />❑ Public Hearing ❑ Other <br />Acct. Name <br />Acct. Number <br />Fisc.v. NoTES: <br />REVIEWED AND APPROVED BY: <br />Z Administration Z City Clerk ❑ Community Development ❑ EMS/IT Z Finance Z Fire <br />❑ Municipal Court 0 Legal ❑ Library ❑ Police ❑ Eng./Public Works ❑ Utilities <br />City of Paris Revised 2/04/08 <br />- - 64 <br />