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ROANOKE CITY COUNCIL
ROANOKE COUNTY BOARD OF SUPERVISORS
ROANOKE REGIONAL AIRPORT COMMISSION
MARCH 7, 2005
12:00 P.M.
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AGENDA
1. CALL TO ORDER - ROLL CALL:
City of Roanoke (The Council meeting convened at 9:00 a.m.)
Cou nty of Roanoke
Roanoke Regional Airport Commission
2. WELCOME: Mayor Harris.
Chairman Altizer
3. INVOCATION: Council Member Alfred T. Dowe, Jr.
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4. COUNTY/CITY AUTOMATIC AID AGREEMENT.
5. REMARKS AND INTRODUCTIONS. JAMES M. TURNER, JR.,
CHAIR, ROANOKE REGIONAL AIRPORT COMMISSION.
6. PRESENTATION BY JACQUELINE L. SHUCK, EXECUTIVE
DIRECTOR, ROANOKE REGIONAL AIRPORT.
A. Background and Facilities:
Airfield and Terminal
Employees
Other Airport Businesses
Economic Impact
B. Funding:
Operating Budget and Revenue Sources
Capital Projects and Revenue Sources
C. Airport Aviation Sectors:
General Aviation
Cargo and Large Aircraft Maintenance
Passenger Carriers and Air Service
D. Other Issues:
Terminal Facility Upgrades and Improvements
FAA Facilities
Noise Program
Master Plan Update
7. COMMENTS BY CITY COUNCIL, BOARD OF SUPERVISORS AND
AIRPORT COMMISSION.
8. OTHER BUSINESS.
THE ROANOKE CITY COUNCIL MEETING WILL BE DECLARED IN RECESS TO BE
RECONVENED AT 2:00 P.M., IN THE CITY COUNCIL CHAMBER, FOURTH
FLOOR, NOEL C. TAYLOR MUNICIPAL BUILDING.
THE ROANOKE COUNTY BOARD OF SUPERVISORS MEETING WILL BE
ADJOURNED.
THE ROANOKE REGIONAL AIRPORT COMMISSION MEETING WILL BE
ADJOURNED.
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ACTION NO.
ITEM NO. ~
AT A JOINT MEETING OF THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS OF ROANOKE COUNTY,
VIRGINIA; CITY OF ROANOKE; AND ROANOKE REGIONAL AIRPORT COMMISSION,
HELD AT THE NOEL C. TAYLOR MUNICIPAL BUILDING
MEETING DATE:
March 7 I 2005
AGENDA ITEM:
Request to approve an agreement with the City of Roanoke for
fire and rescue automatic aid in the Hollins and Mount
Pleasant areas of Roanoke County and related personnel
positions required to implement service enhancements
SUBMITTED BY:
Richard E. Burch, Jr.
Chief of Fire and Rescue
Elmer C. Hodge ~ !f+
County Administrator
APPROVED BY:
COUNTY ADMINISTRATOR'S COMMENTS:
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SUMMARY OF INFORMATION:
In February 2005, the Board of Supervisors approved by consensus the development of an
agreement between Roanoke County and Roanoke City to provide automatic aid to areas
in both localities. By approving this agreement, the County and City would provide
reciprocal services in the areas around the Hollins and Mount Pleasant Stations in the
County; Stations 11 and 13 in the City. This agreement provides mutual benefits to both
jurisdictions and will result in service enhancements for the citizens.
Implementation of this agreement will require the addition of eight (8) paramedic/firefighter
positions and the upgrade of three (3) existing positions at a cost of $450,000 for salaries,
benefits, scheduled overtime, uniforms, physicals, and pagers. The fee for ambulance
transport revenue, with adopted increases, is projected to be sufficient to cover this
amount.
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In addition, concerns regarding coverage in the Back Creek, Bent Mountain, and Cave
Spring areas have been expressed. To implement enhanced services in these areas, a
plan has been developed to place personnel at Back Creek Station to not only provide
relief for that area, but to also enable Back Creek to provide backup coverage to the Bent
Mountain and Cave Spring areas. To implement this plan, an additional four (4) personnel
would need to be approved and could once again be funded from the fee for ambulance
transport revenue.
FISCAL IMPACT:
A total of $675,000 would need to be appropriated to the Fire and Rescue Department
from the fee for ambulance transport revenue to fund a total of twelve (12)
paramedic/firefighter positions.
AL TERNATIVES:
Without the approval of the automatic aid agreement and the twelve (12)
paramedic/firefighter positions and funding, we will be unable to proceed with the automatic
aid agreement with the City of Roanoke, and be unable to provide enhanced services to
citizens in the Sack Creek, Bent Mountain, and Cave Spring areas.
STAFF RECOMMENDATION:
Staff recommends that the Board approve the following actions:
(1) adopt the attached resolution approving the agreement with the City of Roanoke for
fire and rescue automatic aid in the Hollins and Mount Pleasant areas of Roanoke
Cou nty; and
(2) approve the twelve (12) paramedic/firefighter positionsl the upgrade of three (3)
existing positions and related funding totaling $675,000.00 from the fee for
ambulance transport revenue.
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AT A JOINT MEETING OF THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS OF ROANOKE COUNTY,
VIRGINIA; CITY OF ROANOKE; AND ROANOKE REGIONAL AIRPORT
COMMISSION, HELD AT THE NOEL C. TAYLOR MUNICIPAL BUILDING
RESOLUTION APPROVING AN AGREEMENT WITH THE CITY OF
ROANOKE FOR FIRE AND RESCUE AUTOMATIC AID IN THE
HOLLINS AND MOUNT PLEASANT AREAS OF ROANOKE
COUNTY
WHEREAS, §§ 27-2, 27-4 and 27-23.9, of the Code of Virginia (1950), as
amended, authorizes local governments to cooperate in the furnishing of fire and
emergency medical response and related rescue issues; and
WHEREAS, the City of Roanoke and the County of Roanoke have demonstrated
a pattern of successful cooperation through the joint operation of the Fire and Rescue
Training Center and in the co-staffing arrangement of the County's Clearbrook station;
and
WHEREAS, the City and the County have determined that their regional
cooperation efforts can be expanded to provide automatic aid for fire and rescue
services in each jurisdiction, specifically in the Hollins and Mount Pleasant areas of the
County and the North Williamson Road and Garden City areas of the City, by
automatically dispatching the closest fire or rescue equipment to an E-911 call,
regardless of the location; and
WHEREAS, this cooperative concept of automatic aid to both County and City
will improve public safety and service to its citizens by improving response times on
both fire and rescue calls in the targeted areas and eliminating the occurrence of
emergency equipment actually passing other fire stations on route to an emergency
response.
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BE IT RESOLVED by the Board of SupelVisors of Roanoke County, Virginia, as
follows:
1. That the Board hereby approves the Fire and Rescue Automatic Aid
Agreement to provide these services in the Hollins and Mount Pleasant areas
of Roanoke County and the North Williamson Road and Garden City areas of
Roanoke City, in substantially the form as attached to this resolution, and
authorizes the County Administrator, or his designee, to execute this
Agreement on behalf of Roanoke County, upon a form as approved by the
Cou nty Attorney.
2. That the County and the City agree to develop and adopt operational,
communication, dispatch, safety and medical protocols that meet professional
standards for the effective implementation of this Agreement. All operational
protocols are to be mutually agreed upon in writing by the Fire Chiefs of the
County and the City.
3. That the services performed and expenditures made under this Agreement
shall be deemed to be for legitimate public and governmental purposes and
all immunities from liability enjoyed by the County and its fire/emergency
medical services and resource personnel within its boundaries shall extend to
its personnel wherever located during their participation under this
Agreement.
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FIRE AND EMERGENCY MEDICAL AGREEMENT TO PROVIDE AUTOMATIC
AID BETWEEN CITY OF ROANOKE AND ROANOKE COUNTY
THIS AGREEMENT made this _ day of
, 2005, by and between the CITY
OF ROANOKE, a municipal corporation of the Commonwealth of Virginia (the "City"),
and the COUNTY OF ROANOKE, a chartered county of the Commonwealth of Virginia
(the "County"),
WITNESSETH:
WHEREAS, §§27-2, 27-4, and 27-23.9, Code of Virginia (1950), as amended,
authorize local governments to cooperate in the furnishing of fire and emergency medical
response and related rescue issues;
WHEREAS, the City and County have determined that an automatic aid agreement
to provide fire and emergency medical response and related rescue services across City and
County jurisdictional lines will improve such services in the areas surrounding the Hollins
Station and Mount Pleasant Station in the County and Station 11 and Station 13 in the City;
and
WHEREAS, it is deemed to be mutually beneficial to the parties hereto to enter
into an Agreement concerning the automatic aid reciprocal coverage between such stations
with regards to fire and emergency medical response and related rescue services.
NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the mutual benefits to be derived from this
Agreement, the parties covenant and agree as follows:
1. The County will provide 24-hour/7 days a week fire coverage from the Hollins
Station to the City in the upper end of Williamson Road and Peters Creek Road
areas as shown on Attachment "A."
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2. The City will provide 24-hour/7 days a week first responder and initial fire response
from Station 13 to the County in the North Lakes and Monclair areas as shown on
Attachment "A."
3. The County will provide 24-hour/7 days a week ALS ambulance response from the
Mount Pleasant Station to the City in the Garden City area as shown on Attachment
"B. "
4. The City will provide 24-hour/7 days a week fire coverage from Station 11 to the
County in the Mount Pleasant Station coverage area as shown on Attachment "B."
5. The parties agree to develop and adopt operational, communication, dispatch, safety
and medical protocols that meet professional standards. All operational protocols
or any alterations to the service areas described herein are to be mutually agreed
upon in writing by the Fire Chiefs of the City and County.
6. All fire and emergency medical services and resource personnel, agents and other
employees of the parties to this Agreement who are acting pursuant to this
Agreement shall have the same powers, rights, privileges and immunities as
provided by law in each jurisdiction while providing fire and emergency services.
7. The services performed and expenditures made under this Agreement shall be
deemed to be for public and governmental purposes and all immunities from
liability enjoyed by the County and the City and their fire/emergency medical
services and resource personnel within its boundaries shall extend to its
participation in the Agreement.
8. All pension, disability, Workers' Compensation, life and health insurance and other
benefits to which fire/emergency medical services and rescue personnel are entitled
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shall be extended to the services performed by such personnel under this
Agreement. Each party agrees that provisions of these benefits shall remain the
responsibility of the respective employer of the individuals assigned to provide the
reciprocal response.
9. Each party agrees that, in all activities undertaken pursuant to this Agreement, each
party hereby waives any and all claims against the other party. The parties shall not
be liable to each other for reimbursement for injuries to or death of personnel or
damage to equipment incurred when providing services pursuant to this Agreement,
including when going to or returning from another jurisdiction. Neither party shall
be liable to the other for any other costs associated with or arising from the
provision of services or the rendering of assistance under this Agreement, except as
specifically provided under this Agreement.
10. Each party shall indemnify and save hannless the other party from all claims by
third parties for personal injury and death or property damage which may arise from
activities under this Agreement, to the extent permitted by law, as provided in §27-
2, Code of Virginia, as amended.
11. Administrative details and future unforeseen issues that may arise from activities
associated with the Agreement shall be resolved by a mutually agreed upon solution
of the respective Fire Chiefs. Any disagreement between the Fire Chiefs shall be
resolved by the City Manager and County Administrator.
12. This agreement shall be effective May 1, 2005, until April 30, 2006. Thereafter, it
shall automatically renew for additional terms of one (1) year, unless either party
gives at least ninety (90) days prior written notice of termination to the other party.
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WITNESS the following signature and seals:
ATTEST:
CITY OF ROANOKE, VIRGINIA
By
Mary F. Parker, City Clerk
Darlene L. Burcham, City Manager
ATTEST:
COUNTY OF ROANOKE, VIRGINIA
By
Diane S. Childers, Clerk
Elmer C. Hodge, County Administrator
APPROVED AS TO FORM:
APPROVED AS TO FORM:
City Attorney
County Attorney
APPROVED AS TO EXECUTION:
City Attorney
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