King County - File #: 2007-0365

• File #: 2007-0365
• Version: 2
• Type: Ordinance
• Status: Passed
• File created: 6/25/2007
• In control: Operating Budget, Fiscal Management and Mental Health Committee
• Final action: 7/2/2007
• Enactment date: 7/6/2007
• Enactment #: 15862
• Title: AN ORDINANCE adopting financial policies for the emergency medical services fund and creating emergency medical services task force.
• Sponsors: Bob Ferguson, Dow Constantine, Julia Patterson, Larry Phillips, Larry Gossett, Kathy Lambert, Jane Hague, Reagan Dunn, Pete von Reichbauer
• Indexes: Committees, Emergency Medical Services (EMS), Financial Policies, levy

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result
7/2/2007	1	Metropolitan King County Council	Hearing Held
7/2/2007	1	Metropolitan King County Council	Passed as Amended	Pass
6/27/2007	1	Operating Budget, Fiscal Management and Mental Health Committee	Passed Out of Committee Without a Recommendation	Pass
6/25/2007	1	Metropolitan King County Council	Introduced and Referred

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AN ORDINANCE adopting financial policies for the emergency medical services fund and creating emergency medical services task force.
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PREAMBLE:
Adopted emergency medical services ("EMS") fund financial policies require maintenance of a multiyear financial plan and cash flow projections for the six years funded by the EMS levy, based on estimates of program growth, operating expenses including labor costs, and capital requirements, and also including actual rates of inflation and reserves for the fund. The EMS financial policies will be reviewed annually by the operating budget, fiscal management and mental health committee, or its successor, which may recommend policy changes to guide the six-year EMS financial plan.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF KING COUNTY:
SECTION 1. EMS financial audit. The county auditor shall conduct an annual audit of the county programs funded by this levy, comparing actual revenues, expenditures and reserves to those amounts specifically identified in the financial plan adopted by the council each year during the budget process including the roles of: inflation; population growth; call volume; labor agreements and new labor costs; fuel expenses; vehicle maintenance and replacement; and the regional subsidy needed for local basic life safety program in support of emergency medical services ("EMS"). The audit report shall be submitted to the council by September 30 of each year, beginning in 2009. The report must be filed in the form of 13 copies with the clerk of the council, who shall retain the original and forward copies to each councilmember, the county executive and to the lead staff for the operating budget, fiscal management and mental health committee, or its successor. Consistent with Seattle's separate program described in Proposed Ordinance 2007-0282, Section 2, the city of Seattle will submit reports of the city's program on the same schedule to the manager of the Seattl...