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June 10, 2002 page 369 Budget Review - General Services /^ - H intenanoe /Couxts Mx_ Job. Page, General Services Admiaistsator, gave a brief overview of the General Services budget, including Street Sig. Maintenance, Building Maintenance, Grounds 1L i.tenatce, Facility Services and Fleet Maintenance_ He also reviewed the budgets for the building and custodial maintenance of the Cabarrus County Courthouse. Further, Mr. Page presented the following statistics concerning General Services. 434 acres of land maintained by Grou Maintenance; 74 structures maintained by Building Maintenance Division; 566,900 square feet maintained by Facility Services Division; and 331 vehicles maintained by the Fleet Maintenance Division. Budget Review - Planning Services Mr. Joaathaa Marshall, Planning Services Director, reviewed the proposed budgets for Planning, Community Development (housing repair and xehabilitatio.), Transportation (van system), Zoning and Exosion Control_ He discussed recent changes that have been made in the van transportation system to keep casts xithi. budgeted amounts. Also, he reported that negotiations are continuing with transportation service pxovidezm is efforts to keep the level of trips up with the sale amount of funding. Budget Revive - Pnhlie Safety Services Mr. Mike Downs, Director of Public Safety Services, reviewed the proposed budgets for Public Safety Services, including Public Safety (Emergency Management and Fire Marshal), Building Inspections and Emergency Medical Services. Mr. Clifton briefly reviewed the Emexgeacy Services Study that was presented to the Board last year. This study addressed such fire service issues as the annexation of fire districts by municipalities, the lack of volunteers and the fact that fine services are not equal thz..ghout the county. Some solutions could include the merges of volunteer fire departments, contracts with municipalities ox contracts with different fix* departments. He advised that the Board would need to look at this study and to consider what options to pursue for future fire services i. Cabarsus County. Mr. Downs reported that staff is updating the Emergency Services Study at this time. Chief Charles Greene of H ... isbuxg Fire and Rescue presented a request for a fire tax increase o£ three cents for the Harxisburg Fire District. He stated the Department has spent its cash reserves and that increased funding is needed fox additional paid staff, capital improvements at the fire station and the replacesw:nt of the ladder truck. There was lengthy discussion regarding the request for the fire tax rate increax. Issues addressed during the discussion included the following. (1) the growth in the Harrisburg area; (2) the possibility of Harrisburg Fire and Rescue becoming a municipal department of the Town of Harzisburq; (3) the number of paid employees and the recommended salary increases for those mployees; (4) the increase in the district's tax base since 1996_ Mr. David Hampton, Emergency Medical Services (EMS) Director, and Mr_ Day presented a proposal to increase ambulance fees in order for the County to receive the increased Medicare reimbursement rates. Currently the County charges $345.00 for all trensports. The recommended fee schedule was as follows. $350.00 - BLS (Basic Life Support - No medications); $400.00 - ALS -1 (advanced Life Support, No eoxe than two (2) medications]; and $450.00 - ALB - 2 [Advanced Life Support, three (3) or more xedicatio and one (1) or arose advanced care procedures, iatvbatio.s, urgical airways, chest decompressions, etc_]; $5.00 per mile - Loaded Niles for Transport of patients_ The proposed fee schedule will be an the Aqenda for the June 17" meeti.g for adoption by the Board_ Budget Review - Recreation Mr. Steve Litele, Parks and Recreation Director, presented a brief overview of the Livable Casmuaity Blueprint_ 26 Attachment number 1 F -11 Page 274