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Commissioners press for clarity on 911 and EMS packages, explore phased approaches
Summary
Following public budget hearings, commissioners asked staff for more detail on 911 and EMS decision packages, including whether priorities can be phased across budget cycles and what would relieve 'status 0' outages in certain districts.
Commissioners asked staff to drill down on 911 and EMS decision packages after hearings that produced many requests for increased capacity. One commissioner said, "Speaking for myself, I wanna be able to support 9 1 1 and what they need, but if there's ways we can spread that out over 2 budget cycles instead of 1, what that would really look like for us." The board asked for a short follow-up briefing and suggested exploring pilots for integrated response models in targeted districts.
Specific concerns included frequent "status 0" events and offline ambulances in some districts; commissioners asked staff to identify which decision packages would reduce those outages, whether items could be stretched over multiple cycles, and whether pilot integrated models could be trialed at the MAC (or another site) before systemwide adoption.
