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- ORIGINAl. Joint Powers Agreement Establishing the San Mateo Pre-Hospital Emergency Services Providers Group [The Parties to this Agreement will be, subject to the approval of each of the agencies, each of the cities with fire departments and each of the fire districts in San Mateo County.] I. Background to Agreement A. The San Mateo County Board of Supervisors, acting through its Emergency Medical Services Agency, is proposing to enter into a contract for pre- hospital emergency services transport ("Contract for Ambulance Service") with a qualified provider ("Countywide ambulance provider"). The Countywide ambulance provider will be selected at the conclusion of a request for proposal process. B. Each of Parties to this Agreement provides or intends to provide first response medical services and other-emergency service response through its fire service employees in order to improve the quality and level of emergency medical services within their communities as pert of the emcrgency medical service response network within San Mateo County. C. The first response services provided by the Parties to this Agreemertt are necessary for the efficient functioning of an integrated system of pre-hospital emergency medical services. D. The Parties to this Agreement would like to work cooperatively and collaboratively to achieve the purposes of this Agreement as outlined in Section II. E. The similarity of pre-hospital emergency medical services provided by the Parties, their shared interest in improving quality of caf~ and achieving economic savings in the delivery of services has led the Parties to jointly exercise powers to provide these services and achieve these objectives. F. Alternatives to existing pre-hospital emergency transportation protocols are considered "value added" services which save health plans and consumers money in outside claims and reduce ambulance company costs. II. Purposes of this Agreement The purposes of this Agreement are: A. To establish the San Mateo Pre-Hospital Emergency Services Group ("Group"), a joint powers agency capable of providing through employees of the Parties, or through a contract with a third party, pre-hospital emergency services in San Mateo County.