Subject:
Title
Approval, Re: Interlocal Agreement with the City of Palm Bay for Automatic Aid, E-911 Dispatch Services and Facility Use.
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Fiscal Impact:
None
Dept/Office:
Fire Rescue Department
Requested Action:
Recommendation
It is requested the Board approve the Interlocal Agreement with the City of Palm Bay for Automatic Aid, E-911 Dispatch Services and Facility Use. There are no substantive changes from the previous agreement that has been fundamentally the same for the last 10 years.
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Summary Explanation and Background:
The County and City find that it is in the best interest of the public health, safety and welfare of their citizens to enter into this Agreement for the purposes of allowing the County and the City to share emergency resources.
The County and the City agree to provide Automatic Aid in a closest unit response mode for all emergency requests for service including, but not limited to, first responder medical call, fire calls, and hazardous material calls.
The County agrees to provide twenty-four (24) hour, seven (7) days a week, E-911 fire and first responder dispatch services to the City. The City is responsible for any and all equipment and costs necessary to receive voice and data communications from the Brevard County Fire Rescue Dispatch Center.
The City agree to provide the County operational use space at two (2) of the City’s fire stations. The County shall utilize the City’s fire station facilities identified in the Agreement to support the operations of a County staffed emergency response ambulance. The County agrees to provide the City operational use space at the Brevard County Fire Station #89. The City shall utilize the County’s fire station facility identified in this Agreement to support the operations of a City staffed emergency response fire engine.
The Agreement will in force and effective upon the approval and execution by the elected governing bodies of both the County and the City, and be effective for an initial two (2) year period. Following the expiration of the initial two (2) year term, the agreement will automatically renew for three (3) successive one (1) year periods. In that the services are provided by both the County and the City in a mutually beneficial manner, there shall be no monetary payments to either the County or the City.
Risk Management and the County Attorney’s Office have coordinated on this action.
Clerk to the Board Instructions:
Please return two original, fully executed Agreement to Pamela Barrett, Brevard County Fire Rescue.