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Council adopts ordinance to charge facilities for nonemergency lift assists; education and appeals process included
Summary
The City Council adopted Ordinance 25‑43 to authorize fees for certain nonemergency responses and lift assists at residential care facilities, emphasizing an education period and an administrative appeals process.
The City Council adopted Ordinance 25‑43, creating a fee for certain nonemergency responses and lift assists at residential care facilities; the council suspended the rules and approved the ordinance the same evening, with a 6–0 roll call vote.
Chief Rob Gaylor told the council the department will continue to respond to true emergencies and clarified that the ordinance targets facility practices rather than residents. “If an elderly person's on the ground and they call 911 or the facility doesn't wanna pick them up and they call 91, we will make that run every single time,” he said, adding that the fee mechanism is aimed at facilities that use emergency response as a de facto staffing substitute.
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