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r <br />CALVIN B. BROWN, ATTORNEY REPRESENTING A & S PRIVATE <br />AMBULANCE SERVICE APPEARED BEFORE THE BOARD ON OCTOBER 24, 1973 <br />REQUESTING COUNTY FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE FOR HIS CLIENT. MR. <br />BROWN STATED THAT THIS AMBULANCE SERVICE DEALS STRICTLY IN <br />TRANSPORTING CONVALESCENT PATIENTS, AND NEW LEGISLATION HAS <br />BEEN PASSED THAT MIGHT PUT THIS SERVICE OUT OF BUSINESS. <br />THE NEW FLORIDA EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES ACT WAS <br />PRIMARILY DESIGNED FOR EMERGENCY VEHICLES, BUT WHEN THE NEW <br />ACT WAS PASSED IT INCLUDED A DEFINITION OF AN AMBULANCE THAT <br />WAS SO BROAD IT BROUGHT IN THE SERVICES SUCH AS A & S PRIVATE <br />AMBULANCE SERVICE. IN ORDER FOR A & S AMBULANCE SERVICE TO <br />CONTINUE THIS BUSINESS AND SERVICE TO THE COMMUNITY THEY ARE <br />REQUESTING FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE FROM THE COUNTY.' <br />CHAIRMAN Loy WAS OF THE OPINION THAT CHANGES .IN` <br />LEGISLATION MAY OCCUR BETWEEN NOW AND NEXT MAY, 1974, WHEN <br />NEW ESSENTIAL EQUIPMENT FOR AMBULANCES BECOMES A NECESSITY. <br />ALSO MATCHING FUNDS MIGHT BE AVAILABLE AT THAT TIME, THAT ARE <br />NOT AVAILABLE NOW. <br />COMMISSIONER SIEBERT SUGGESTED CONTACTING THE.INDIAN <br />RIVER LEGISLATIVE DELEGATION TO HAVE THIS CONVALESCENT AMBULANCE <br />SERVICE REMOVED FROM THE FLORIDA STATUTE BEFORE THIS ESSENTIAL <br />EQUIPMENT IS PURCHASED, <br />ALSO PRESENT FOR THIS DISCUSSION WAS HARRY COX AND <br />CONNOR ROBERTS, OWNERS OF A & S PRIVATE AMBULANCE SERVICE. <br />AFTER MUCH DISCUSSION THE BOARD AGREED TO WAIT ABOUT <br />8 MONTHS BEFORE MAKING A DECISION REGARDING THE COUNTY FINANCING <br />ASSISTANCE FOR THIS SERVICE. <br />SHERMAN SMITH III, ATTORNEY REPRESENTING VICTOR <br />PALISANO, DEVELOPER APPEARED REQUESTING FINAL APPROVAL OF <br />SUN VILLA WEST SUBDIVISION. <br />IN REVIEWING THE FINAL PLANS, IT WAS FOUND TO BE <br />INCOMPLETE. MR.'ePALISANO STATED HE WOULD COMPLETE THE PLANS <br />AND RETURN THEM TO MR. .JENNINGS. <br />A MOTION WAS MADE BY COMMISSIONER SI•EBERT, SECONDED <br />BY COMMISSIONER MASSEY, THE BOARD UNANIMOUSLY GRANTED FINAL <br />APPROVAL TO SUN VILLA WEST SUBDIVISION, SUBJECT TO THE <br />— 4 — <br />OV 7 1973 <br />a Book. �a11 <br />x <br />