facility update citizens capital budget advisory committee february 6, 2008 1.what is medic? 2.how...

Facility Update

Citizens Capital Budget Advisory CommitteeFebruary 6, 2008

1. What is Medic?2. How we use the space3. Growing pains4. What it means

1) What is Medic

What is Medic?

Management Partners

Funding 54% from fees for service

46% from county

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2) How we use the space

Communications Center Dispatches all Medic calls

Delivers protocol-driven instructions over the phone to patients or those helping them until emergency personnel arrive

Dispatches 18 volunteerfire and rescue departmentscountywide

Advanced training

The Emergency Medical Education and Simulation Center provides Medic Paramedics and EMT’s the most-advanced and challenging situational and clinical training in America for emergency medical services personnel.

Open Pipeline

At least one, sometimes two EMT/Paramedic classes will run continuously for the foreseeable future.

Other grant-funded assets ALERT-1

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2 ambulance buses

Fleet Services on site

Fleet of 58 ambulances plus Operations Supervisors’,

other vehicles

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3) Growing pains

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A Defining Decade

+50%

+100%

1997 2006-50%

0%

*U.S. Census Bureau projection

2007

871,432* 40%

1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005

88,737 +116%

68,342 +122%+7%

+6%

$455 +5%-2%

88,737 +116%

68,342 +122%

Population 621,845

Total Calls 41,023

Transports 30,776

Per transport $429

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What it means

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Building at capacity today

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Parking exhausted today

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Other factors

Facility is not secure

Remote lot unsafe for employees

Communications Center not hardened

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Property is landlocked

Medic Post 100

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Assessment

Lease expires 2011: Must decide direction now Need operational space, parking to accommodate continued growth Must have secure facility for safety of employees, protection of assets Communications Center must be hardened to withstand weather, other potentially catastrophic events

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Facility Update

Citizens Capital Budget Advisory CommitteeFebruary 6, 2008

1. What is Medic?2. How we use the space3. Growing pains4. What it means