Drafter
Clerk 04/14/2016
Title
A MOTION approving a report related to emergency medical services budget specifying how general fund overhead, public health departmental administrative and emergency medical services division overhead and central rate charges and charges for direct services are incorporated in the King County Emergency Medical Services budget, in accordance with the 2015/2016 Biennial Budget Ordinance, Ordinance 17941, Section 75, Proviso P1.
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WHEREAS, the 2015/2016 Biennial Budget Ordinance, Ordinance 17941, Section 75, Proviso P1, related to emergency medical services, states that $2,000,000 shall not be expended or encumbered until the executive transmits a report and motion, by March 15, 2016, on how general fund overhead, public health departmental administrative and emergency medical services division overhead and central rate charges and charges for direct services are incorporated in the King County Emergency Medical Services budget, and
WHEREAS, emergency medical services staff, with the help of the help of public health finance staff and the office of performance, strategy and budget staff, have reviewed and analyzed overhead, indirect and direct distributed costs allocated to the emergency medical services fund and prepared a report documenting the allocations from these cost pools, and
WHEREAS, the King County executive has transmitted to the King County council the requested report, and
WHEREAS, the King County council has reviewed the attached report that addresses, but is not limited to, the following proviso areas:
1. A description of general fund overhead allocation and central rate methodologies charged to public health and included in the emergency medical services budget and King County Medic One budget;
2. A description of the rates and methodologies used for direct service charges;
3. A description of how county, department and division overhead and direct charges are calculated for Medic One;
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