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Home My WebLink About20173971.tiffRESOLUTION RE: APPROVE APPLICATION FOR TIER I EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES LICENSE AND AUTHORIZE CHAIR TO SIGN - FRONT RANGE FIRE RESCUE WHEREAS, the Board of County Commissioners of Weld County, Colorado, pursuant to Colorado statute and the Weld County Home Rule Charter, is vested with the authority of administering the affairs of Weld County, Colorado, and WHEREAS, pursuant to Section 7-2-100 of the Weld County Code, the Weld County Department of Public Health and Environment and the Weld County Emergency Medical/Trauma Service Council have reviewed the application of the Front Range Fire Rescue for a Tier I Emergency Medical Services License and recommend approval, and WHEREAS, the Board was presented with a request for waiver concerning an employee's traffic offense, and WHEREAS, Section 7-3-50 of the Weld County Code, states: Unless waived by the Board of County Commissioners, no personal shall be employed by an ambulance service as an ambulance crew member who has been convicted of any of the following offenses with the previous twelve (12) months from the date of application: felony misdemeanor or Class I or Class I1 traffic offense. WHEREAS, after review, the Board deems it advisable to grant the requested waiver and approve said Application for a Tier I Emergency Medical Services License, a copy of which is attached hereto and incorporated herein by reference. NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the Board of County Commissioners of Weld County, Colorado, that the request for waiver be, and hereby is, granted and the employment and crew member status be allowed for the cited employee. BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED by the Board that the application of the Front Range Fire Rescue for a Tier I Emergency Medical Services License be, and hereby is, approved. BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED by the Board that the Chair be, and hereby is, authorized to sign said license. cc : H LCmQ') 2017-3971 HL0049 APPLICATION FOR TIER I EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES LICENSE - FRONT RANGE FIRE RESCUE PAGE 2 The above and foregoing Resolution was, on motion duly made and seconded, adopted by the following vote on the 27th day of November, A.D., 2017. BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS WELD CO; NTY, COLORADO ATTEST: datiwo C.� j"�;Weld County Clerk tothe Board BY:aat'OC- • eputy Clerk to the Board APPROVED AS unty Attorney Ju ie A. &ei, a 0 ozad, Chair EXCUSED Steve Moreno, Pro-Tem Date of signature: Imo 11 f t-1 ike Freeman ,/ 2017-3971 HL0049 Memorandum TO: Julie A. Cozad, Chair Board of County Commissioners FROM: Mark E. Wallace, MD, MPH Executive Director Department of Public Health & Environment DATE: November 20, 2017 SUBJECT: 2018 Applications for Ambulance Service License Enclosed for the Board's review are eleven applications for ambulance service licenses pursuant to the Weld County Code Chapter 7, Emergency Medical Services, from the ambulance service providers listed below. The Weld County Emergency Medical Trauma Service (EMTS) Council reviewed the application for each ambulance service provider on November 16, 2016, and approved all 11 applications. Please note: Front Range Fire Rescue is asking the BOCC for a waiver per county code for an employee convicted of a Class I driving offense. Front Range Fire Rescue has included a letter with further detail in their application. Weld County Code, Section 7-3-50. Criminal record of ambulance crew member; "Unless waived by the Board of County Commissioners, no person shall be employed by an ambulance service as an ambulance crew member who has been convicted of any of the following offenses within the previous twelve (12) months from the date of application: felony, misdemeanor or Class I or Class II traffic offense. (Weld County Code Ordinance 2007-8; Weld County Code Ordinance 2013-7)." Based on the delegated responsibility of the Department, we have reviewed the applications and have deemed all ambulance services listed below to have met all applicable licensure application requirements found in Chapter 7. As such, I am recommending the following ambulance service providers for licensure: Tier I Frederick — Firestone Fire Protection District 8426 Kosmerl Place Frederick, Colorado Front Range Fire Rescue 101 South Irene Avenue Milliken, Colorado Mountain View Fire Protection District 3561 Stagecoach Road, Unit 200 Longmont, Colorado Banner Health/Northern Colorado Medical Center Paramedic Service 1801 16th Street Greeley, Colorado Tier I continued Tier I continued Poudre Valley EMS 3509 South Mason Fort Collins, Colorado Southeast Weld Fire Protection District 65 East Gandy Avenue Keenesburg, Colorado Thompson Valley EMS 4480 Clydesdale Parkway Loveland, Colorado Windsor Severance Fire Protection District 100 North 7th Street Windsor, Colorado Platte Valley Ambulance Service EMS 1600 Prairie Center Parkway Brighton, Colorado Tier III Colorado Motocross Medics 729 Remington Street Fort Collins, Colorado Stadium Medical 695 Canosa Court Denver, Colorado 2017-3971 i-itoO 19 o1ammoon-manintammannL IL IL Imeu 5_ 2 E 7 E 7 Name of Service 100 TELEP AVENUE, JOHNSTOWN, COLORADO 80534 Address FRONT RANGE FIRE RESCUE "a M E_ El 7 7 M. M 7 M "E 5 M -7 7 7 7 E "E 71 E 7 E 7 U_ M 7 7r� L�IL�IL�IL�IL�IL�IL�IL�IL�IL�IL�IL�Il�1L�11�11�IL�iI��-11�IL�I�`, Recommendation of the Weld County Emergency Medical/Trauma Service Council for: Front Range Fire Rescue As required in Section 7-2-100.B.5., the EMTS Council should review the application to assess as to whether the ambulance service will contribute to an efficient, effective, and coordinated emergency medical response to residents of the County? Please include any findings related to response time, coordination with other ambulance services, location, service area, etc. that is the basis for the Council's recommendation: FINDING #1: Front Range Fire Rescue (FRFR) services approximately 75 square miles of Weld County, including the Towns of Johnston and Milliken running 1,500 calls for service. FRFR runs 2 ambulances. FINDING #2: FRFR meets the Standard of Cover Response times adopted by the Board of Directors. Performance results are included in the application. FINDING #3: FRFR is in good standing with the Weld County Department of Public Health & Environment. FINDING #4: Per neighboring agencies, FRFR provides mutual and auto aid in an efficient, effective and coordinated manner. Included in the application is the mention of a new mutual aid agreement with Banner Health NCMC Paramedic Services. Recommended Level of Service: XX Tier 1 Tier 2 Tier 3 Recommended Service Area: As listed in the FRFR 2018 application. Other EMTS Council recommendations or comments: Information included in the application to address an employee who was involved in a traffic accident. This based upon Weld County Code (Sections 7-2-90 and 7-3-50). Recommendation for approval of Tier 1 License was completed by EMTS Council. Chief Bateman will be pres-n �t the BOCC meeting to address any questions the BOCC may have. Recommendation By: Date: 11-20-2017 AMBULANCE SERVICE LICENSE APPLICATION Date of Application: 09/29/2017 Name of Ambulance Service: Front Range Fire Rescue Authority Owner: Name: Operations Chief Bernie Covillo Address: 101 S. Irene Ave, Milliken CO 80534 Phone Number: 970-587-4464 Operations Manager: Name: Bernie Covillo Address: 101 S. Irene Ave, Milliken CO 80534 Phone Number: 970-587-4464 Email: bcovillo@frfr.co Medical Director: Name: Dr. Darren Tremblay Address: 1024 S Lemay Ave Fort Collins, CO 80524 Phone Number: 970-495-8006 Name and address of each stockholder of partner owning 10% or more of the outstanding stock of the company of having more than a 10% ownership interest (if applicable): N/A What area of Weld County will be served by this company? Please attach a map indicating the service area. See map attached. Page 2 How many ambulances do you operate? 3 Location and description of the place(s) from which this ambulance service will operate. If there are more than two locations, attach a separate sheet with the above information. Location #1: Street Number: 100 Telep Ave City: Johnstown State: CO Location #2: Street Number: 101 S Irene Ave Phone: 970-587-4464 City: Milliken State: CO Phone: 970-587-4464 As required in Section 7-3-30 of the Weld County Code Ordinance and Chapter 4 Section 6 of the CDPHE Emergency Medical and Trauma Care System regulations, as of the date of the application, are you in compliance with the minimum data collection and reporting of transportation and/or treatment of patients: ®Yes ❑No As required in Section 7-3-40 of the Weld County Code and Chapter 3 Section 3 of the CDPHE Emergency Medical Services regulations, as of the date of the application, are you in compliance with the reporting requirements of the agency profile: ®Yes ❑No Please read carefully: Sec. 7-2-10 License for Ambulance Service. No person shall provide or operate an ambulance service publicly or privately in the County unless that person holds a valid license to do so issued by the Board of County Commissioners, except as provided in Section 7-2-80 below. The fee for said license shall be set by separate ordinance. The license shall issue only in the following tiers of service: Tier I: Licensure authorizing for Primary Care, as defined in Section 7-1-30 of this Chapter. Tier II: Licensure authorizing for transports of patients that originate in Weld County from licensed medical facilities. This licensure does not provide for primary care, as defined in Section 7-1-30 of this Chapter. Tier III: Licensure authorizing for Standby Service, as defined in Section 7-1-30 of this Chapter. Level of Service Requested: ® Tier I ❑ Tier II ❑ Tier III Page 3 I HEREBY CERTIFY THAT I AM AUTHORIZED TO SUBMIT THE FORGOING APPLICATION AND THE INFORMATION PROVIDED IN THIS APPLICATION IS TRUE TO THE BEST OF MY KNOWLEDGE AND BELIEF AND CONTAINS NO WILLFUL MISREPRESENTATION OR FALSIFICATION. IN ADDITION, I CERTIFY THAT I HAVE READ AND UNDERSTAND THE PROVISIONS AND REQUIREMENTS OF WELD COUNTY CODE CHAPTER 7, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, SECTION 74-10, WHICH ENCOURAGES ALL LICENSED AGENCIES PROVIDING EMS RESPONSE IN WELD COUNTY TO MAKE A GOOD FAITH EFFORT TO EXECUTE WRITTEN MUTUAL AID AGREEMENTS WITH ALL OTHER EMS PROVIDERS LOCATED WITHIN OR BORDERING ON THEIR AREAS OF RESPONSE. DETERMINATION THAT AN AMBULANCE SERVICES LICENSE HAS BEEN ISSUED BASED ON FALSE INFORMATION CONSTITUTES GROUNDS FOR LICENSE REVOCATION AND POSSIBLE CRIMINAL PROSECUTION. nature o icant iO/i i I1- Title Da e 4-- SUBSCRIBEI9,_A AFFIRMED BEFORE ME THIS DAY , 20 % , IN THE COU TY OF LA_ J A , STATE OF COLORADO. Signature of Notary My Commission expires: 3 / 3 I c2 -O *Please make additional copies as necessary. Page 7 TY ROAD 4 ROAD;5 60'? WELD CO. TY R 21490 xo TY.R AD 4 20516 6519 CY3 \20997 42 42 19620 SC 2702 56 10600 ILO N 11357 1-O _.gym. 4.�...� 21211 ill CO 21171 �-r 22990 : I CO 22777 R4.4 _ f Nebv? kl 3285 6:5 Legend U • 44 20759 o - €42 0118 42 42 LO Station 3 Station 2 Station 1 FrontRangeFireResponseBoundariesCurrent i ✓ - _7C 3 � [may] � y4J A'IRr�.-•y C41� 'hc 38 16600 10/11/2017 To whom it may concern, Front Range Fire Rescue WWW.FRFR.Co W.FRFR.Co Front Range Fire Rescue Authority has mutual aid or automatic aid agreements with: Loveland Fire Rescue Authority Thompson Valley EMS Windsor Severance Fire Rescue Banner Health Paramedic Services Berthoud Fire Protection District Weld County Fire Intergovernmental Agreement for Mutual Aid Respectfully, Operations Chief Bernie Covillo Station I Too Telep Avenue Johnstown, CO 80534 Station 2 TOTS. Irene Ave. Milliken, CO 80543 970.587.4477 Fax: 970.587.0324 970.5874464 October 24, 2017 FRONT RANGE FIRE RESCUE WWW.FRFR.CO Weld County Department of Public Health and Environment Attn: Environmental Health Services 1555 N. 17th Avenue Greeley, CO 80631 To whom it may concern, Greetings! Page five of the Front Range Fire Rescue Authority (FRFRA) 2018 Tier 1 license application has an unchecked box; this letter is to provide further and complete explanation. On July 23, 2017 an RFT member of the FRFRA was involved in rear -end type traffic accident. My best understanding of the event, as described by that employee was, that he was stopped at a stoplight on Highway 119 in Firestone, CO. This individual believed that, after the light had turned green, traffic was moving. He was momentarily distracted and rear ended a vehicle in front of him at low speed. That vehicle had a driver and a front seat passenger. Both of these .ndividuals were able to self -extricate, but the driver was, ultimately transported by ambulance with back or neck pain. WCSO responded initially and CSP took over the scene eventually. MVFPD was the fire agency that responded. FRFRA policy requires employees to, "report all citations for moving violations...immediately" and, "violation of this policy may result in disciplinary action, up to and including termination." This employee followed Authority policy and, without haste, notified his captain. On September 5, 2017, he appeared in court and, per C.R.S. 42 — 4 —1402 (2)(b), was cited with a Class 1 traffic offense. Based upon Weld County Code (Sections 7-2-90 and 7-3-50), the low-level nature of this traffic offense, the employee's immediate self -reporting, no employer concerns about this individual's ability to provide stellar EMS to the community, and direction from Weld County Program Coordinator Kevin Antuna, I respectfully submitted a letter to ask the Board of County Commissioners to waive the violation for renewal of our Tier I license on October 19, 2017. I am including this letter because, as of the date above, I haven't received a formal response from that request. I have endeavored to be as transparent as possible in my correspondence, but because this application may be considered an open record I have, for obvious reasons, been somewhat muted. None of this delicate approach should be interpreted as evasive, but rather deliberate and respectful. With that STATION 1 100 TELEP AVENUE JOHNSTOWN, CO 8O534 97O.587.4477 FAX: 97O.587.O324 STATION 2 1 0 1 S. IRENE AVE. MILLIKEN, CO 8O543 97O.587.4464 FRONT RANGE FIRE RESCUE WWW.FRFR.CO said, any further questions may be answered by referencing Case Number 2017T 005174 in Weld County Court. Additionally, I am available for further discussion by cell (970-227-6925) or email (rbateman@frfr.co) Thank you. Sincerel , Ron Bateman, Fire Chief Front Range Fire Rescue Authority Cc: John Chmil, Attorney with Lyons, Gaddis, Kahn & Hall STATION 1 100 TELEP AVENUE JOHNSTOWN, CO 80534 970.587.4477 FAX: 970.587.0324 STATION 2 1 0 1 S. IRENE AVE. MILLIKEN, CO 80543 970.587.4464 Hello