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RESOLUTION NO. 78-12
WHEREAS, on April 9, 1959t as a result of an election held in Tarrant
. CountYt Texas, the Tarrant County Hospital District was created by the Commissioner1s
Court of Tarrant County, Texas; andt
WHEREAS, the Hospital District was created for the benefit of all of the
}'esidents of Tarrant County, Texas, and is supported by taxes levied upon all
property in Tarrant County, Texas; and,
WHEREAS, the Hospital District is deemed by law to have certain responsibilities
for medical and hospital care 'in Tarrant County, Texas; and,
WHEREASt extensive studies have been undertaken by the Tarrant County
Hospital District (May, 1972L the City of Fort Worth, the Tarrant County
HeaHh Planning Council, Tarrant County Medical Society, and Texas Osteopathic
Medical Association---District II, which have identified the need for and advocated
the creation of a comprehensive countywide ambulance plan, supported hy tax
revenues from the Tarrant County Hospita-¡ District; and,
WHEREAS, the lack of a comprehensive county ambulance plan has resulted in
each city in Tar}~ant County having to make separate contracts with private
ambulance firms or provide a municipal ambulance service and,
WHEREAS, such ambulance service with contracted or municipally owned vehicles
ar2 supported "lith tax revenues from each respective city; and,
WHEREAS, the residents of each city in Tarrant County are not presently a~sured
of ambulance service throughout Tarrant County irregradless of the expenditure
of local tax funds in each respective city; and,
WHEREAS, the Attorney General of the State of Texas has handed down ar!
opinion \\lhereby hospital districts may manage and provide ambulance service for
their respective districts; and the logical and most feasible solution to serious
problems which directly affect the health and general \'ieìfare of the citizens
of Tarrant County, Texas, would be for the Tarrant County Hospital Distr'ict to
assume this responsibility and levy taxes to provide emergency ambulance ::.2i'vicp
for the citizens of said County;
NOH, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the City Council of the City of North
Richl-::nd Hills th2it. the City of North Richland Hills official1'1 Ondarses the
concept ~ C, +\ . . d n ..... . ' .'. . .~
_ . .... or a oun_~/l e Mmbulance Sys~em flnanced wlth tJX ~evenues from th~
IZlrrarh County Hospital DistY'Ìct; and, "-
. . ~E IT F~RTHER ~ESOLVED that the Tarrant County Commissioner1s Court take
~?Slt"!Ve actlon to lmplement such a plan through the Hospital District \'1Ïthin
~ne next twelve (12) months. '
PASSED AND ADOPTED th is the 1b,
day of Augus t
) 1973.
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