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City attorney updates ambulance-franchise ordinance; committee adopts amended ordinance language and directs follow-up
Summary
The city attorney told the committee that Topeka’s ambulance-franchise ordinance needed updating after discovering nonfranchised services operating in the city; the committee voted to advance an amended ordinance (removal of a redundant section) and directed staff to pursue applications and follow-up enforcement.
Brandy Wight Bachman, senior city attorney, told the Policy and Finance Committee on March 25 that the city discovered at least two ambulance services operating in Topeka that had not applied for a franchise and that parts of the city’s existing ambulance ordinance contained outdated language and citations.
Wight Bachman said the office had sent an application to the owner of one service and had given that operator 60 days to submit a completed application; staff had sent a letter to the second service but that mailing was returned as undeliverable because the listed…
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