City of Milwaukee - File #: 220777

• File #: 220777
• Version: 1
• Type: Resolution
• Status: Passed
• File created: 9/20/2022
• In control: PUBLIC SAFETY AND HEALTH COMMITTEE
• Final action: 10/11/2022
• Title: A Substitute resolution relative to acceptance of funding for the City of Milwaukee Basic Life Support Ambulance Service Support Program from the State of Wisconsin Department of Administration
• Sponsors: THE CHAIR
• Indexes: AMBULANCE SERVICE

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result	Tally
10/19/2022	1	MAYOR	SIGNED
10/11/2022	1	COMMON COUNCIL	ADOPTED	Pass	10:0
9/30/2022	0	PUBLIC SAFETY AND HEALTH COMMITTEE	Minutes note: Appearing: Amanda Lewis - MFD Business Operations Manager Mr. Wayne Jurecki - VP Bell Ambulance Mr. DeWayne Smoots - MFD
9/28/2022	0	PUBLIC SAFETY AND HEALTH COMMITTEE	HEARING NOTICES SENT
9/20/2022	0	COMMON COUNCIL	ASSIGNED TO

Number
220777

Version
Substitute 1

Reference

Sponsor
THE CHAIR

Title
A Substitute resolution relative to acceptance of funding for the City of Milwaukee Basic Life Support Ambulance Service Support Program from the State of Wisconsin Department of Administration

Analysis
This resolution authorizes the Fire Department to accept funds, as a beneficiary, for the City of Milwaukee Basic Life Support Ambulance Service Support Program from the State of Wisconsin Department of Administration in the amount of $5,000,000.00.

Body
Whereas, the City of Milwaukee entered into ambulance service provider contracts with private ambulance service providers on or around December 19, 2017 as further set forth in Common Council File Number 171263; and

Whereas, the agreement was amended on or around October 25, 2021 to include a subsidy provided by the City to the contracted Basic Life Support (BLS) private ambulance providers for each dispatched service call that is accepted; and

Whereas, the United States Department of the Treasury has distributed to the State of Wisconsin Department of Administration funds (“ARPA Funds”) from the Coronavirus State and Local Fiscal Recovery Fund pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 802, as added by section 9901 of the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (“ARPA”); and

Whereas, a Final Rule issued by the U.S. Treasury Department effective April 1, 2022, outlines the eligible uses ARPA funds to include payments to beneficiaries who have been negatively impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic such as the City of Milwaukee, as such COVID-19 impacts include severely increased financial strain on the City’s BLS ambulance system; and

Whereas, the State has issued a Memorandum of Understanding Regarding the use of ARPA funds by the City and through its Fire Department from 01/01/22 through 12/31/24; now, therefore, be it


Resolved, By the Common Council of the City of Milwaukee, that the Milwaukee Fire Department may accept said State funding as a be...