(A) The County Board of Commissioners wish to assure an efficient, highly trained response to emergency 911 calls for service involving illness and injury within the confines of the county; realizes the county should subsidize this effort through the EMS Fund; and realize a one system approach to these responses will achieve the desired level service response.
(B) This system will be known as the county emergency response system.
(C) The County Board of Commissioners will establish the single system approach to be supervised by county EMS at the direction of the Board of Commissioners.
(D) A single system will have exclusive rights to 911 response to illness, injury and tactical rescue within the confines of the county.
(E) The system will include the levels of response to include paramedics, advanced EMTs, basic EMTs, first responders, auto extrication person and tactical rescue services.
(F) The County Board of Commissioners wishes to integrate extrication and tactical rescue services into the existing EMS Department employee base to allow for continuity of training and service.
(G) The county EMS will assure adequate training, audit or review of runs, and quality assurance to respective members/departments within the one approach.
(H) There shall be a chain of command established within the system from the Board of Commissioners extending to the responder base to afford structure and accountability to the system as well as an organized approach to the management effort.
(I) The system shall implement live incident command system approach to assure operational consistency when dealing with tactical response as well as casualty incidents.
(J) The County Board of Commissioners authorize the Director or the EMS to enter into mutual aid agreements with local and out of county agencies to assist in specialty response.
(K) The County Board of Commissioners authorize the Director of the EMS to establish and implement this system immediately with regular reports to the Board of Commissioners as to the status of the system.
(BC Ord. 2003-74, passed 3-27-2003)