Owensboro Board of Commissioners
May 01, 2019 4:00 PM
Special Called Meeting
1. CALL TO ORDER
Mayor Tom Watson
2. ROLL CALL
City Clerk Beth Cecil
3. Consider Ordinance 7-2019 entitled AN ORDINANCE APPROVING AN EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICE AND AMBULANCE AGREEMENT BY AND BETWEEN THE CITY OF OWENSBORO, DAVIESS COUNTY FISCAL COURT, AND MERCY AMBULANCE OF EVANSVILLE D/B/A AMR AMBULANCE SERVICE, THE EXCLUSIVE COUNTY-WIDE PROVIDER OF EMERGENCY AMBULANCE SERVICES FOR THE OWENSBORO-DAVIESS COUNTY CENTRAL DISPATCH SYSTEMS.
Rationale

The Daviess County Fiscal Court and City of Owensboro’s current ambulance provider Procarent, d/b/a Yellow Ambulance, notified the governments pursuant to their contract, that the provider intended to discontinue its emergency ambulance service in Daviess County, effective July 1, 2019. The City and County negotiated and approved an exclusive Emergency Medical Service and Ambulance Agreement by and between the City, County and Mercy Ambulance of Evansville, Inc., d/b/a AMR Ambulance.

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4. ADJOURNMENT