HomeMy WebLinkAbout79-17 - Grant Application, Emergency Medical Services PlanRESOLUTION NO. 79-17
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
COSTA MESA, CALIFORNIA, ENDORSING THE EMERGENCY
MEDICAL SERVICES PLAN FOR ORANGE COUNTY, AND
THE SUBMITTAL OF A GRANT APPLICATION FOR THE
IMPLEMENTATION OF THE PLAN.
WHEREAS, the City Council of the City of Costa Mesa has reviewed
the draft Emergency Medical Services Plan which has been prepared by the
Director of Emergency Medical Services; and
WHEREAS, there exists a critical need for emergency medical
services to provide on-site care to persons who have been accident
victims or experienced trauma; and
WHEREAS, the residents of this City can greatly benefit from
emergency medical services which can be provided through the Plan in
the areas of: manpower and training, communications, management and
organization, transportation, facilities and critical care facilities,
consumer education/information, compatible patient record keeping,
evaluation, disaster linkage, mutual aide, trauma, cardiac, poison, high
risk infants and children, burn, behavioral emergencies, and spinal cord
elements; and
WHEREAS, an integral part of the plan is the continued and ex-
panded component of paramedics which has contributed substantially to
the saving of lives in this City and adjacent cities; and
WHEREAS, the Office of Emergency Medical Services is preparing a
grant application, EMS 1203, for implementation funds for the Emergency
Medical Services Plan;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the City Council of the City of
Costa Mesa supports the Emergency Medical Services Plan and also en-
dorses the grant application to be submitted by the Office of Emergency
Medical Services to the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare.
PASSED AND ADOPTED this 20th day of February, 1979.
ATTEST:
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ayor of the C ty o os a Mesa
I, EILEEN P. PHINNEY, City Clerk and ex -officio Clerk of the City
Council of the City of Costa Mesa, hereby certify that the above and
foregoing Resolution No. 79-17 was duly and regularly passed and
adopted by the said City Council at a regular meeting thereof, held on
the 20th day of February, 1979.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the
Seal of the City of Costa Mesa this 21st day of February, 1979.
City
Clerk and ex -officio
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