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City Council Meeting <br />Aug. 12. 2002 <br />Page 17 <br /> <br />the EMS is appropriate to be charged. The question is, there are things like <br />administrative support, dispatch, collections, and other efforts being done to <br />support the contract and are those are appropriate? Mr. Shaver said you cannot <br />provide the EMS unless you have those things, and if you do not charge for <br />those things, then, you are not charging a suitably equivalent charge that is <br />necessary to support the service. Mr. Shaver stated that in his view, that when <br />you are pricing the EMS, it has to include both direct and indirect charges. <br /> <br />Mr. Shaver said the level of service that is provided is something under the <br />contract that is left to the City of Paris. It specifically requires adequate <br />emergency medical services vehicles and related services adequate as to be <br />determined by the provider under the contract, which is the City of Paris. It <br />is more than basic emergency medical service. It provides references in <br />paragraph six of the contract - all vehicles used for emergency service. He said <br />that this is clearly not just an ambulance contract, it is not a transportation <br />contract, it is a emergency response contract by the implication of terms. <br /> <br />Mr. Shaver stated that the contract, in his opinion, is clear that the City of Paris <br />has the discretion on the decisions on the type of emergency medical service <br />that it is going to provide; that there is a positive discretion that has been made <br />known to the county in terms of the contract and the information that has been <br />provided; and they have agreed to those terms over the course of the life of the <br />contract. The county cannot pick and choose, as the purchaser of those <br />services, and say I am going to buy this service, or I am not going to buy that <br />service if it is part of the services provided to residents of Lamar County, then <br />there is a legal obligation. Mr. Shaver thought they would have to pay for those <br />or the city can not provide those services. He said it is not a system where the <br />city could decide they are going to provide the services to all the residents and <br />not charge for those services. <br /> <br />Mr. Shaver said, as he mentioned before, there is a provision that says the <br />county can provide emergency medical service and not charge the local entities <br />inside the county. The county can be pay for all and not charge any of the <br />cities. He advised that the City of Paris cannot do that legally. Mr. Shaver said <br /> <br /> <br />