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Item ~ 10
Meeting Date 1/19/82
ITEM T17
~LE: RESOLUTION ~a 7.~ Approving Assignment of the First Amended Agreement to
Provide Paramedic Service to the City of Chula Vista and Specified Adjacent
Areas and the Police Ambulance Agreement from Robert L. Hartson to Med-Trans
SUBMITT~O BY: CITY ATTORNEY (4/5ths Vote: Yes No X )
The Ci y of Chula Vista presently contracts with Hartson Ambulance Service to provide
parame is services and to handle all police emergency services. In order to insure
the co tinued high level of both said services, the City in said contracts reserves
the ri t to consent to any assignment of the contracts or any right or interests
thereu der. It is now proposed that both of said contracts be assigned to Med-Trans,
a limited partnership.
TION: Adopt Resolution consenting to assignment and authorizing the
Mayor to execute same
BOARD/COMMISSION RECOMMENDATION: n/a
DISCUSSION:
The Ci y generally reserves the right to consent to assignment of any contract for
profes Tonal services to insure that the competency of the assignee will be equal
to tha of the person who had originally obtained the agreement. The City cannot,
of cou se, prevent any person from disposing of their property interests in a business
or pro essional enterprise, but in the event that the assignee in some manner is
object'onable because of inadequate financial responsbility or experience, the City
would ertainly wish to reserve the right to find another professional service that
would eet these fundamental requirements.
In on finally granting a certificate for the operation of an ambulance business in
the Ci y of Chula Vista, the City Manager is required to cause an investigation to
be mad to ascertain the financial responsibility and experience of the applicant.
In the present situation, the limited partnership to which Hartson Ambulance Service
intend to assign its interest is composed of two men who have acted in executive
and ad inistrative capacities with the ambulance service for some time and have
skills and experience which clearly qualify them to continue the business that
they a e, in fact, operating at present. The third general partner is a highly
respec ed attorney in the City of San Diego thus giving further evidence and weight
to the requirement of financial responsibility.
Based ~pon the record and all documentation provided, the City Attorney has recommended
to the City Manager that the City consent to the proposed assignment.
FISCAL~IMPACT: n/a
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Form A-113 (Rev. 11/79)