Title
Approval of Interlocal Agreement Authorizing the Creation of a Firefighter Special Operations and Rescue Team
Recommended Action
Committee Recommendation:
Not referred to a committee
City Manager Recommendation:
Move to approve the Interlocal Agreement authorizing the creation of a Firefighter Special Operations and Rescue Team and authorize the mayor to sign the agreement.
Report
Issue:
Whether to approve the agreement, which replaces an existing agreement for a Thurston County Special Operations and Rescue Team (SORT). The City of Olympia is a charter member of this team. This agreement new has language about rescue vehicle use not in the original document.
Staff Contact:
Greg Wright, Deputy Fire Chief
360.753.8466
Presenter(s):
None - Consent Calendar Item.
Background and Analysis:
The original document, Interlocal Agreement Authorizing the Creation of a Firefighter Special Operations and Rescue Team, was signed in 2010. The agreement does not terminate until mutual agreement of the parties. The original agreement did not address the insurance, storage, driving and use by members of vehicles not owned by the member's home agency. The assumption was that the County Mutual Aid Agreement to which all members of the SORT are signatories covered the situation. When a situation arose that one member agency wanted to store a vehicle at another member agency's station it was determined that the current Interlocal Agreement Authorizing the Creation of a Firefighter Special Operations and Rescue Team document nor the County Mutual Aid Agreement adequately covered the situation.
The original agreement created SORT as a multijurisdictional team of specially trained rescue members intended to compliment, and not to replace, the services already provided under the Thurston County Mutual Aid Agreement. The SORT responds to unique emergency rescue situations in which specialized training and expertise may be required. The multijurisdi...
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