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ORANGE COUNTY
BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS
ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT
Meeting Date: June 21, 1999
Action Agenda
Item No. ~-Z
SUBJECT: Contract for EMS Medical Support at Orange County Raceway
DEPARTMENT: Emergency Management PUBLIC HEARING: (Y/N) No
ATTACHMENT(S): INFORMATION CONTACT:
Contract Nick Waters, ext 3030
TELEPHONE NUMBERS:
Hillsborough 732-8181
Chapel Hill 968-4501
Durham 688-7331
Mebane 336-227-2031
PURPOSE: To consider a contract between OCR, Inc. (Orange County Raceway) and Orange
County, Department of Emergency Management, to provide medical coverage for events and
races held at the Raceway.
BACKGROUND: The Emergency Management Department provided medical coverage for
races and events last year, under a similar agreement. Emergency Management staff have met
with the owners of the Raceway and have discussed the need for medical coverage and how it
is to be provided. Staff and Raceway officials have worked out the operational and fiscal issues
of the contract and have reached a satisfactory agreement. Reimbursement to the County for
its services to the Raceway will be at the following rates per hour, with athree-hour minimum:
EMT (Basic Life Support) each $ 10.00
Paramedic (Advanced Life Support), $ 25.00
each
Response Vehicle w/ equipment, each $ 10.00
Ambulance Vehicle w/ equipment, $ 15.00
each
FINANCIAL IMPACT: Revenues generated under the terms of the contract offset the cost of
providing the service, including indirect costs.
RECOMMENDATION(S): The Manager recommends that the Board approve the contract and
authorize the Chair to sign, subject to final review by the County Attorney.
STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA
ORANGE COUNTY
This Contract dated Mazch 1, 1999, between OCR, Inc. (the "Raceway") and
the County of Orange (the "County") for joint and cooperative arrangements for the
provision of emergency medical services at certain Raceway events.
WITNESSETH
WHEREAS, the County and the Raceway propose to work jointly on matters of
concern or interest; and
WHEREAS, certain events at the Raceway bring spectators to Orange County
to enjoy the events; and
WHEREAS, the provision of adequate emergency medical caze at such events is
a matter of mutual concern and interest to the Raceway and the County; and
WHEREAS, detailed joint and cooperative arrangements with respect to such
events will mutually benefit the Raceway and the County; and
WHEREAS, the County and the Raceway desire to provide such cooperative
emergency medical Gaze;
NOW THEREFORE, in consideration of the premises and the mutual covenants
and conditions set forth below, the County and the Raceway agree as follows:
1. The County agrees to provide emergency caze providers certified at the
Emergency Medical Technician and/or Paramedic level for the thirty-four (34) 1999
Raceway events as outlined in the Orange County Speedway 1999 Schedule. (Exhibit A)
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2. The County agrees to provide one (1) response vehicle staffed with one (1)
Paramedic for fifteen (15) 1999 practice sessions (3-20, 3-25, 4-1, 4-8, 5-6, 5-20, 5-27,
6-3, 6-17, 6-30, 7-29, 8-12, 8-19, 9-2, and 10-15), one (1) ambulance staffed with one (1)
Paramedic and two (2) Emergency Medical Technicians (minimally) for one (1) 1999
event (3-27), and two ambulances staffed with a total of two (2) Pazamedics and three (3)
Emergency Medical Technicians for eighteen (18) 1999 events (4-3, 4-10, 4-23, 5-1,
5-8, 5-22, 5-29, 6-5, 6-19, 7-2, 7-17, 7-31, 8-14, 8-21, 9-4, 9-17, 10-2, and 10-16).
Additional coverage will be negotiated at the time of need.
3. The County agrees to keep records of patients seen at the Raceway while
covering Raceway events under this contract and, with the consent of the patient, to
provide such records to the Raceway, upon its request. Data available to the County
from the records of patients seen at the Raceway which is cleazly not patient identifying
may be provided to the Raceway, upon request of the Raceway and when appropriate.
4. The Raceway shall compensate the County for emergency medical services
provided pursuant to this contract by paying to the County a sum based on a rate of
$35.00 per hour per pazamedic response vehicle, $50.00 per hour per paramedic
ambulance, and $10.00 per hour per additional EMT for each event covered. These hours
will include prepazation and travel time of one (1) hour for each event plus the coverage
time per event. The county shall submit an invoice for these events on a regulaz basis and
payment by the Raceway shall be made to the order of the County and mailed to Orange
County Emergency Management , P. 0. Box 8181, Hillsborough, N. C. 27278.
5. The personnel providing the emergency medical services shall report to the
Raceway at the time agreed upon by the Speedway and the County.
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6. The contract may be reviewed annually no later than Mazch 1, and may be
renewed, modified, or amended at that time, or at any other time, upon the mutual
written agreement of the parties.
7. This contract may be terminated at any time by either parry by giving 90 days
notice to the other party in writing.
8. If either party defaults in its obligations and does not cure such default within
ten (10) days of receipt of notice of such default, the non-defaulting party may
immediately terminate the contract.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have duly and validly authorized
and executed this contract as of this ~ q:~ day of ~ , 1999.
WILLIAM MICHAEL LAMM,
dba ORANGE COUNTY RACEWAY
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W. MICHAEL LAN1M, Aerations Manager
COUNTY OF ORANGE
Alice Gordon, Chair, Board of County Commissioners
Attest:
County Clerk
Approved as to form:
County Attorney