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File #: 2024-1332    Version: 1
Type: Resolution Status: In Standing Committee
File created: 12/13/2024 In control: Committee on Finance and Law
On agenda: 12/17/2024 Final action:
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Title: Resolution amending Resolution 1016 of 1991, which authorized the creation of the Emergency Medical Services Reimbursed Events Trust Fund, to rename the fund and update its allowable uses for consistency with other such funds within the Department of Public Safety, at no cost to the City.
Indexes: TRUST FUND
Attachments: 1. 2024-1332 Cover Letter-EMS-BP-70C45_20241210_163301, 2. Summary 2024-1332
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Resolution amending Resolution 1016 of 1991, which authorized the creation of the Emergency Medical Services Reimbursed Events Trust Fund, to rename the fund and update its allowable uses for consistency with other such funds within the Department of Public Safety, at no cost to the City.

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Be it resolved by the Council of the City of Pittsburgh as follows:

Resolution 1016 of 1991, entitled "RESOLUTION authorizing and directing the City Controller to create a special trust fund, to be designated as the Emergency Medical Services Reimbursed Events Trust Fund (EMSRETF), for the deposit of monies from reimbursed special events, and authorizing the use of monies deposited therein by the Department of Public Safety, Bureau of Emergency Medical Services, to cover premium pay for Emergency Medical Services Personnel only" is hereby amended as follows:

Section 1. The City Controller is authorized and directed to create a special trust fund, at no cost to the City, to be designated as the EMS Secondary Employment Trust Fund with JD Edwards job number 2200243700, into which any and all monies collected from Emergency Medical Services (EMS) Details, Secondary Employment, Special Events cost recovery, and any and all administrative charges associated with the administration and implementation of programs that require the provision of EMS services on a premium pay basis. All reimbursements for EMS Premium Pay Details shall be deposited by the Department of Public Safety in a manner prescribed by the Director of Finance into said trust fund.

Section 2. Reimbursements to EMS personnel for Details, Secondary Employment, and/or Special Events, including pay and related taxes paid by the employer, may be paid directly from this trust fund or via a different City funding source.

Section 3. Expenses related to the administration of EMS Details, Secondary Employment, and/or Special Events programming, including payments to non-City emergency medical services or...

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