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Potential Benefits: <br />1. Customer Service: <br />Ambulances located in the City might provide faster service to residents. <br />Faster service might be beneficial to Roseville's aging population, or to <br />anyone who suffers a critical accident or medical emergency here. <br />2. Local Control: <br />The city would have more influence over the cost and quality of ambulance <br />service in Roseville. <br />Potential Drawbacks: <br />1. Is ambulance service "Public Safety": <br />The Roseville Council has not made a policy decision about whether <br />ambulance service is a"public safety" service and whether the city wants to <br />have local control over ambulance service in Roseville. <br />2. Cost/Revenues from EMS: <br />Depending on your business plan and how it is implemented, Emergency <br />Medical Services can recover their costs, lose money, or make money — and <br />financial results will vary from year to year. <br />The Policv Decision: <br />Whether the Roseville City Council wants to have the option of deciding <br />who will provide ambulance services in Roseville in the future, or not. <br />A. If the Council wants the option, the Council could j oin the <br />cities named above and adopt a Resolution supporting the <br />special legislation. <br />B. If the Council does not want the option, then the Council <br />need not take any action. <br />Neal Beets <br />City Manager <br />� <br />