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ORDER-2017-144 : FY18 Ambulance Enterprise Fund Budget in the amount $887,544.99 (Eight Hundred Eighty Seven Thousand, Five Hundred Forty Four Dollars and Ninety Nine Cents).
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ORDER-2017-144 Enterprise Fund FY18 Ambulance Enterprise Fund Budget in the amount $887,544.99 (Eight Hundred Eighty Seven Thousand, Five Hundred Forty Four Dollars and Ninety Nine Cents). Recommend Passage Board of Aldermen City of Melrose Page 2 Updated 5/25/2017 12:48 PM
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▶ 35:46 Peter D. Mortimer: So moved. Alderman Zwirko makes a motion to recommend this budget for passage, duly seconded by Alderman Inferna. Seeing no further discussion, all in favor please say aye. Aye. Any opposed? Hearing none, this order will be recommended to the full board for passage. Thank you. The next order we have before us is order 201, you're welcome. The next order we have before us is order 2017-144. Fiscal year 18 ambulance enterprise fund budget in the amount of $887,544.99.
▶ 36:20 Speaker 9: So again, I'd like to thank Mr. Del Rosso and his staff for their assistance developing this budget. After consulting with Mr. Mergendahl from PRO in the auditor's office, we've decided to maintain the current rate structure for the following year and not look for an increase. The only change to this year's budget was a decrease by $17,000 in the salary and wages line. This was due to the removal of the EMS training coordinator's position for FY18.
▶ 36:46 Peter D. Mortimer: Thank you. Thank you, sir. President Kahn, please.
▶ 36:49 Speaker 6: Yeah, for members of the public who are watching it at home, this is an enterprise fund. And what that means is that this budget is funded based on the revenue that the city takes in as a result of running the ambulance service. So this is not money that's coming out of the general fund. It's money that's being paid by probably primarily insurance companies for services rendered and it's being utilized to fund this budget.
▶ 37:17 Peter D. Mortimer: Thank you President Kahn. Alderman McAteer-Margolis please.
▶ 37:21 Mary Beth McAteer-Margolis: Thank you. Chief, thank you for putting this together with, and Mr. DelaRusso as well. You indicated that the reduction was because of an elimination of the EMT training position?
▶ 37:32 Speaker 9: PMS training coordinators, yes.
▶ 37:34 Mary Beth McAteer-Margolis: And was that held by a staff member? Was that someone outside?
▶ 37:38 Speaker 9: This was a position that was never filled. It was, we weren't able to come to an agreement with the union in implementing the position. This was paid for half by the fire budget and half by the EMS budget. I see. So, we could not, we weren't able to fill it in, so the money was removed and used elsewhere.
▶ 38:02 Mary Beth McAteer-Margolis: Uh-huh, and was it removed from the fire budget as well? Yes. It was, okay. So, but you do have a training program or a sufficient-
▶ 38:13 Speaker 9: Well, we could use, we do training, all the groups do things together,
▶ 38:18 Speaker 9: but it would be helpful to have someone coordinate it, and that was the goal of this position. I see. A couple years ago.
▶ 38:26 Speaker 2: Okay, thank you. Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
▶ 38:29 Peter D. Mortimer: Thank you, Alderman McAteer-Margolis. Seeing no further, Alderman, wishing to be heard. Is there a motion?
▶ 38:37 Speaker 10: Motion to approve the bottom line.
▶ 38:38 Peter D. Mortimer: Second. We have a motion by Alderman Zwirko to recommend the bottom line for passage on this order. Fully seconded by Alderman McAteer-Margolis. All in favor, please say aye. Aye. Any opposed? Hearing none, this order will be recommended to the full board for passage. Thank you, Chief. Thank you, Mr. De La Russo. Before I entertain a motion to adjourn, I wanted to report back to the committee.