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ATTACHMENT A <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />M <br />EMORANDUM <br /> <br /> <br />November 25, 2009 <br /> <br />TO: Mayor Kitty Piercy and Eugene City Council Members <br /> Mayor Sid Leiken and Springfield City Council Members <br /> Commission Chair Peter Sorenson and Lane County Commissioners <br /> President Larry von Moos and Lane Rural Fire/Rescue Board Members <br />FROM: Ambulance Transport System Joint Elected Officials Task Force (Mike Clark, <br />Andrea Ortiz, Dave Ralston, Hillary Wylie, Rob Handy, Larry von Moos, and <br />Kevin King) <br /> <br />SUBJECT: REPORT AND RECOMMENDATION <br /> <br />SUMMARY <br />In view of negative revenue experiences and projections for the ambulance service providers in <br />central Lane County (Eugene Fire & EMS Department, Springfield Fire & Life Safety Depart- <br />ment, and Lane Rural Fire/Rescue District), which were brought on by reduced Medicare reim- <br />bursements and a number of other economic factors, our Task Force was charged earlier this year <br />to study the problem and develop a recommendation, or set of recommendations, to provide for <br />long-term financial stability for this service, without compromising the high quality of prehospit- <br />al emergency medical care that our constituents expect and deserve. <br />We acknowledge that the provider departments – and their governing bodies – have already ex- <br />pended substantial effort to address this critical public concern, both by taking extraordinary <br />steps to reduce expenditures and by passing extraordinary increases in user fees to offset decreas- <br />ing revenue, but these measures have served only to slow, not stem the fiscal bleeding. Efficien- <br />cies within the scope of each agency’s control have been or are now being implemented. This <br />task force was formed because a solution to this crisis is beyond the capacity and authority of <br />any one provider agency acting unilaterally. It is vital that the possible solutions recommended <br />1 <br /> <br />
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