After a Year of Negotiation, Colo. County Finalizes Ambulance Services Contract with AMR
July 09--The El Paso County Emergency Services Authority on Wednesday finalized an ambulance services contract with American Medical Response that had been in the works since last June.
At the monthly board meeting, board administrator Caroline Sasaki announced that the five-year contract had been signed by all of the board members.
The contract draft went into effect on July 1, after it was approved by the City of Fountain and El Paso County Board of Commissioners on June 24.
County officials had worked for months to negotiate a new contract with AMR after The City of Colorado Springs, which had previously been involved in the contract for two decades, announced its plans to pull out from the intergovernmental agreement last June.
The City of Fountain had replaced Colorado Springs in a new agreement signed in March.
The authority, comprised of doctors, first responders, elected officials and citizens, provides oversight of shared ambulance services in the county.
Sasaki said the contract should be posted on the authority's website, ESAboard.org, by the end of the week.
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