Cambria’s ambulances may move to the Fire Station, according to the letter included in the agenda packet for Thursday’s CCSD meeting.Below is the text of that letter. The Healthcare District (CCHD) will be discussing this at their meeting tomorrow night (June 23, 2009, 6:30 pm, Rabobank).

Dear Members of the Board of Trustees and Members of the Board of Directors:
As you are aware, the Cambria Community Healthcare District (“CCHD”) Board of Trustees and the Cambria Community Services District (“CCSD”) Board of Directors have an ongoing joint Co-Location Committee (“Committee”) that has been investigating emergency service operational and financial efficiencies that may accrue from closer cooperation between the two agencies. Several months ago, meetings of the committee were suspended because of financial concerns over the prospect of having to expand the existing CCSD fire station to accommodate co-location of the CCHD emergency medical service crews.
The committee believes that some form of consolidation of CCHD emergency medical service operations and the CCSD fire department is in the best interests of the community. As pointed out in the report of the Emergency Medical Services Citizens Committee, there are a number of operational and financial benefits that can be realized from a cooperative service delivery effort by the two agencies. Within the past few months the committee, in consultation with the CCHD Administrator and CCSD General
Manager, developed a set of ideas that will, if approved by the CCHD Board of Trustees and the CCSD Board of Directors, result in initiation of the process of co-locating the CCHD personnel and equipment at the CCSD fire station and completion of negotiations and documentation of a long term cooperative agreement.
Before proceeding further, the committee has requested that the Board of Trustees of the CCHD and the Board of Directors of the CCSD endorse the following recommendations and authorize the committee to:
1. Continue to work on the details of an arrangement whereby the highest level of  operational efficiencies and cost savings are achieved through co-location and shared staffing of the two agencies.

2. Oversee the co-location plan and schedule of the CCHD emergency medical service operations at the CCSD fire station, and present the proposal to respective Boards for approval by August 31, 2009.
3. Develop recommendations for a joint powers agreement or other legally permissible arrangement for shared location, operations, staffing and funding.
4. Develop standard operating procedures for operations.
5. Negotiate recommendations for shared property operations and costs.
This Letter Agreement will be placed on the June 23, 2009 agenda of the CCHD Board of Trustees and the June 25, 2009 agenda of the CCSD for consideration. If approved by the respective Boards, please have the President of the CCHD Board of Trustees and the President of the CCSD Board of Directors sign in the spaces provided below. Once this Letter Agreement has been approved and executed, the committee, in conjunction with the staff of the two entities, will move forward expeditiously to bring all final recommendations and supporting agreements to the two Boards for consideration.

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