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Commission discusses donating an ambulance to Hatzalah; staff suggests budgeting next fiscal year
Summary
Commissioners heard a presentation from Hatzalah about volunteer EMS operations and discussed a possible city donation or purchase of a fully equipped ambulance (staff estimated around $500,000). Staff recommended folding the request into next fiscal-year budget conversations rather than an immediate fund-balance amendment.
The City of Sunny Isles Beach heard a presentation from Hatzalah nd its local representative Andre at a June workshop about the volunteer organization's emergency-response model and a request for a donated ambulance to be stationed in the city.
Andre, identified in the record as Hatzalah's treasurer/representative, described Hatzalah as a volunteer, nonprofit EMS provider with 24/7 dispatch that now operates ambulances and emergency-response units across South…
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