ORDER-2018-182 : Ambulance Enterprise Fund Budget for Fiscal Year 2019 in the amount of $923,783.75 (Nine Hundred Twenty Three Thousand, Seven Hundred Eighty Three Dollars and Seventy Five Cents.

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▶ 2:38:28 Shawn M. MacMaster: I'm sorry, Madam Chair. One thing I neglected to say, and Alderman Forbes reminded me, is I did have an opportunity to visit the Main Street Firehouse. And I'm thankful, Chief, for the tour that you gave me. It was illuminating, to say the least. And we've had a lot of departments come before us. And it's very clear that with every department, they've presented a lean budget. I would venture to say that the fire department's budget is really beyond that. It's a skin and bones budget, and I want to thank you and recognize you for your work and for what you've inherited, and I also want to thank the other firefighters who are present and those who aren't here tonight for everything that you're doing with the budget that you have. So thank you for that. Thank you.

▶ 2:39:15 Speaker 7: I'll make sure I pass that along to them. Thank you.

▶ 2:39:17 Speaker 2: Thank you, Madam Chair.

▶ 2:39:17 Speaker 1: Thank you.

▶ 2:39:19 Jennifer L. Lemmerman: The motion has been made and seconded. All in favor? Aye. aye any opposed that will be moved forward we have our next item before us chief is yours as well so I'll just ask you to stay right there so we have up next order 2018-182 ambulance enterprise fund budget fiscal year 2019 in the amount of nine hundred twenty three thousand seven hundred eighty three

▶ 2:39:51 Speaker 3: dollars and 75 cents motion move bottom line second we have a motion to

▶ 2:39:54 Jennifer L. Lemmerman: recommend for passage by alderman Forbes seconded by alderman Boyce L on

▶ 2:40:01 Speaker 1: discussion thank you thank you chief there are some indirect costs that are

▶ 2:40:18 Monica C. Medeiros: passed through from this budget to pay for on the the ambulance rates but but costs that are budgeted in the general city operating budget is that correct

▶ 2:40:34 Monica C. Medeiros: so along with we we spent a lot of time talking about this in water and sewer but it is also the ambulance rate and maybe perhaps through the chair if we could request the indirect documents indirect calculate indirect cost calculations from mr del russo's office for the ambulance i believe that some costs are also passed through in in terms of indirect in terms of something maybe the hr costs or insurance and those kinds of costs i don't know if you have that breakdown do you have that figure okay do you know how much that

▶ 2:41:18 Speaker 4: is and one hundred and sixty seven thousand three hundred seventeen dollars okay and if if you could

▶ 2:41:23 Monica C. Medeiros: um please pass that on to uh ms camosa or not ms camosa well actually probably ms kamoska because we'll be going to the full board uh next so it could be added okay and are you involved with

▶ 2:41:35 Monica C. Medeiros: the calculations or how that's determined uh no i'm not strictly with the auditor's office correct

▶ 2:41:46 Monica C. Medeiros: Okay, and could you just talk about overtime in this line? I mean, we talked some about the fire academy, and, you know, do you have vacancies in this department?

▶ 2:41:58 Speaker 7: And the ambulance, the overtime, there is overtime associated with it, and the academy is paid for out of the fire budget. But training, overtime training, we have all our training done at professional ambulances. what keeps their skill set up so high with the simulators that they have over there

▶ 2:42:26 Speaker 7: but my overtime this this ambulance budget pretty much pays for itself it's it's level fund that's actually down a little bit because we had a little bit uh savings from a debt exclude

▶ 2:42:42 Monica C. Medeiros: a debt item that went down about 15 000. this is this is an important service that the fire department provides the whole city and to the public and you know we we really appreciate it and we're glad that we're able to do this in in-house and it's been successful and we've been able to expand upon it over the past few years to add als and um you know it allows our it certainly supplements i think the department and allows it to keep going without being too much about that and so we greatly appreciate it thank you for answering all my questions and well I have five seconds I'll just put in a plug for the the 5k race that is

▶ 2:43:24 Monica C. Medeiros: going on this Sunday for the Father's Day 5k for the firefighters so it's a great race and anybody who's interested please come Sunday thank you for your

▶ 2:43:36 Jennifer L. Lemmerman: support thank you we have a motion that's been made and seconded to recommend this order for passage any further discussion all in favor aye any opposed that will be recommended for passage in our next full board meeting