The City Commission finds the following:
(A) There is a need to ensure that residents in the Grand Rapids metropolitan area that are the recipients of emergency medical services receive enhanced care in an efficient manner;
(B) Part 209 of the state’s Public Health Code, Public Act 368 of 1978, being M.C.L.A. §§ 333.1101 et seq., as amended, authorizes local governmental units to do the following:
(1) Contract for ambulance pre-hospital life support services;
(2) Regulate ambulance pre-hospital life support operations, providing the standards are not in conflict or less stringent than those provided in the Public Health Code; and
(3) Defray costs through the collection of fees for services or by the creation and levy of special assessments.
(C) A number of local governments comprised of the cities of East Grand Rapids, Grandville, Grand Rapids, Kentwood, Rockford and Wyoming, as well as Plainfield Charter Township, (“participating municipalities”) and American Medical Response, Life EMS, and Rockford Ambulance (collectively, the “EMS Providers”) have developed an agreement to define emergency ground ambulance service areas for each EMS Provider and establish standards for such services.
(Ord. effective 3-18-2016)