Productivity Committee EMSAC Subcommittee Minutes 02/19/2008 RECEIVED
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PRODUCTIVITY COMMITTEE EMS MASTER PLAN REVIEW
Minutes—February 19,2008
Productivity Committee Members Present: Janet Vasey, Steve Harrison, Larry Baytos
and Joe Swaja.
EMSAC Members Present: Victoria DiNardo,Nancy Lascheid and Mike Murphy.
Staff Present: Alan Drescher, Mark Willis,Artie Bay, Jeff Page, Jennifer Florin from
EMS; Mike Sheffield,Assistant to the County Manager and Barbetta Hutchinson, Office
of Management and Budget.
Others Present: Ilene Stackel,Naples Daily News.
1. Call to Order
Nancy Lascheid called the meeting to order at 1:07 p.m.
2. Review of the Master Plan Review performed by EMSAC
Nancy stated that the main mission of EMSAC is patient welfare. Three areas of the
report were discussed:
A. Feasibility
B. Financial
C. Improvements
3. Discussion of the EMS Master Plan
Discussion was made within the group regarding insurance payments, electronic
filing, reluctance in the reduction of EMS units, fire district consolidation and an
Ave Maria emergency clinic.
Janet Vasey will draft a letter from the joint sub-committee for submission to the
BCC containing the results of the committee's discussions:
• Reasons for funding shortfall.
• Reductions in patient care and service impacts.
• Relationship between service calls,reduced ambulance transports and the
potential reduction in EMS units.
• Fire District Advanced Life Support(ALS)units.
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• Additional EMS cost reductions such as replacing overtime with regular time
unfunded employees and reducing incentives and capital terms.
• New revenue sources such as a$500 fee for response to auto accidents, an EMS
fee added to auto and boat tags, cost recovery from drunk driver restrictions fees,
a hazardous materials cost recovery charge, a Municipal Services Taxing Benefit
Unit(MSTBU)for new growth units.
• Unfunded units' impact on ambulance response time goal of 8 minutes 90% of the
time.
• Stationing unfunded units to better achieve improved response time.
The subcommittee will volunteer to the BCC to:
• Review the FY 08 and FY 09 EMS budgets to identify potential cost reductions
and revenue enhancements.
• Assist in determining the impact of the four unfunded EMS units (24 employees)
improving response times.
• Look for other potential financial trade-offs within the county budget, specifically
lower priority programs that could be reduced or eliminated to reallocate funding
to EMS for health and welfare services to the community.
4. Adjourn
The meeting was adjourned at 3:02 p.m.
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