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BOARD OF SUPERVISORS
RESOLUTION FOR $4-FOR-LIFE
WHEREAS the Emergency Medical Services System of Virginia provides an invaluable and life-saving service to citizens in all
areas of the Commonwealth, and is recognized nationwide for the excellent out-of-hospital patient care provided by volunteer and career
EMS Providers; and
WHEREAS there exists an immediate and critical need to adequately fUnd the infrastructure of the EMS System, which includes
money returned to localities for EMS purposes, matching grants for EMS equipment, fUndingfor basic and advanced EMS training, and
support for Volunteer Rescue Squads, the Virginia Office of EMS, Regional EMS Councils and other essential elements of the Virginia EMS
System; and
WHEREAS the Virginia EMS System infrastructure receives no Generol Fund revenues, but is financed entirely bya Special Fund
derived fram a $2 fee added to the cost of automobile registrations and known as the Two-for-Life Fund; and
WHEREAS the amount of money from the Two-for-Life Fund for Virginia's EMS System has not increased during the past seven
years, while costs of providing effective and efficient EMS have increased significantly at the state, regional and local levels across the State
since 1990; and
WHEREAS all elements of the Virginia EMS System, as demonstrated by a unanimous vote of the Virginia Emergency Medical
~- Services Advisory Board, will ask the 1998 Virginia GeneralAssembly to help meet those costs by increasing the $2fee to $4, or U-for-Life,
so that the System can meet existing and fUture patient care demands; and
WHEREAS the Frederick County Board of Supervisors recognizes the critical financial ne.eds of the Virginia EMS System
infrastructure and the vital benefits that Citizens of the Commonwealth and this locality derive from that unified EMS System.
NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the Frederick County Board of Supervisors does hereby endorse the proposed $4-
for-Life initiative to be presented by Virginia's EMS System to the Virginia General Assembly at its 1998 session; and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Frederick County Board of Supervisors will communicate the urgent need for increased
fUnding and this endorsement of $4-for-Life to appropriate members of the Virginia General Assembly.
The above resolution was approved this 28th day of January by the following recorded vote:
James 1. Longerbeam
Charles W Orndoff, Sr.
Richard C. Shickle
Aye
Aye
Aye
W Harrington Smith, Jr.
Robert M Sager
Margaret B. Douglas
Aye
AYe
Aye
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John