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City Council Meeting 6-15-2010 Santa Monica, California
RESOLUTION NO. ~oass (CCS)
(CITY COUNCIL SERIES)
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE
CITY OF SANTA MONICA ESTABLISHING FEES FOR FIRE DEPARTMENT
RESPONSE TO AND HAZARDOUS MATERIAL FROM TRAFFIC ACCIDENTS AND
FOR ADVANCED LIFE SUPPORT (ALS) RESPONSE TO NON-ALS PATIENT
INCIDENTS AT SKILLED NURSING FACILITIES
WHEREAS, it is the policy of the City of Santa Monica to charge for the full costs of
services provided by City Staff when such services benefit individual users rather than
members of the community as a whole; and
WHEREAS, the City desires to establish a fee to recover Fire Department costs of
responding to ahd clean-up and removal of hazardous waste discharges resulting from
vehicular accidents; and
WHEREAS, the Fire Department is asked by skilled nursing facilities to respond to
non life threatening incidents; and
WHEREAS; these responses result in emergency response personnel not being
available for other calls that may be more critical in nature; and
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WHEREAS, the City desires to establish a fee to recover its costs for advance life
support (ALS) responses to incidents at skilled nursing facilities for non life threatening
incidents;
NOW, THEREFORE, THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA MONICA
DOES RESOLVE AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1. A fee of $490.00 per hour with a one hour minimum charge is hereby
established for Fire Department response to and clean-up of hazardous materials
discharge resulting from a vehicular accident.
SECTION 2. A fee of $490.00 per hour with a one hour minimum charge is hereby
established and assessed to skilled nursing facilities for patient assessment and care
provided to patients not requiring ALS care and/or ambulance transport to a hospital.
SECTION 3. The fee established per Section 2 of this resolution will not be
assessed if it is determined that the patient requires ALS care and transport to a hospital.
SECTION 4. Commencing on July 1, 2011 and on July 1 of each fiscal year
thereafter all fees established by this resolution, unless noted otherwise, shall be
administratively revised and increased annually by a factor equal to the difference in the
Los Angeles-Anaheim-Riverside Consumer Price Index for Wage Earners and Clerical
Workers for the twelve (12) month period February through February of the prior fiscal
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year, except that any such administrative revision shall not be less than any annual cost of
living adjustment provided to the employees of the City of Santa Monica through
Memorandums of Understanding entered into between. the City and the employees'
bargaining representatives for the comparable fiscal year, and in no event shall the annual
administrative revision be less than zero percent (0%).
SECTION 5. The fees established by this resolution will take effect July 1, 2010.
SECTION 6. The City Clerk shall certify to the adoption of this resolution and
thenceforth and thereafter the same shall be in full force and effect.
APPROVED AS TO FORM:
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Adopted and approved this 15th day of June,
1, Maria Stewart, City Clerk of the City of Santa Monica, do hereby certify that the
foregoing Resolution No. 10488 (CCS) was duly adopted at a meeting of the Santa
Monica City Council held on the 15th day of June, 2010, by the foAowing vote:
Ayes: Councilmembers: Bloom, O'Day, Holbrook, Davis, McKeown
Mayor Pro Tem O'Connor, Mayor Shrives
Noes: Councilmembers: None
Abstain: Councilmembers: None
Absent: Councilmembers: None
ATTEST:
Maria M. Stewart, Ci Clerk