Public Works committee recommends interlocal ambulance agreement, two monitor grants, paramedic training contract, development plat and wastewater rehab

Shelby County’s Public Works Committee on Oct. 22 recommended a set of routine but substantive measures ranging from emergency medical equipment grants to infrastructure work and a planned-development plat.

The committee recommended first reading of an interlocal ordinance authorizing the Shelby County Fire Department to provide emergency ambulance services in Millington, Lakeland and Arlington. The measure was sponsored by Commissioner David C. Bradford Jr. and moved by Bradford, with Commissioner Mills recorded as second. Chief Benson of the Shelby County Fire Department said the ordinance ‘‘refreshes an agreement we have already’’ and mainly updates dollar amounts and the term language.

The panel also recommended two separate resolutions accepting $50,000 grants each — one from the NAP Foundation, Inc., and one from the PK Seidman Charitable Trust — to purchase ZOLL cardiac monitors. Each grant requires a 15% match from the Fire Enterprise Fund ($7,500) for a total appropriation of $57,500 per grant; Chief Benson said the awards will offset monitor purchases.

Committee members…