[Adopted 11-15-1974 by Ord. No. 73]
The Council of the Borough of Bell Acres finds
and therefore declares that it is necessary that an adequate public
ambulance and related emergency health service be established and
operated for the benefit and preservation of the public health, comfort,
convenience and general welfare and the increase of the prosperity
of the inhabitants of the Borough of Bell Acres and that such service
can be most efficiently and economically furnished by means of an
intercommunity municipal authority jointly sponsored by the Township
of Aleppo, the Township of Leet and the Boroughs of Bell Acres, Edgeworth,
Glenfield, Haysville, Leetsdale, Osborne, Sewickley, Sewickley Heights
and Sewickley Hills and incorporated under the applicable laws of
the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania for the express purpose of supplying
such service to all the inhabitants of said municipalities.
It is therefore the joint desire and intention
of the Townships of Aleppo and Leet and the Boroughs of Bell Acres,
Edgeworth, Glenfield, Haysville, Leetsdale, Osborne, Sewickley, Sewickley
Heights and Sewickley Hills, all municipal corporations of the Commonwealth
of Pennsylvania and all situated in the County of Allegheny to organize
an Authority under the Municipality Authorities Act of 1945, designated
as Act No. 164, approved May 2, 1945, together with all supplements
and amendments thereto,[1] for the purpose of exercising and enjoying all of the
powers conferred by said act, its supplements and amendments, except
as otherwise specifically provided in the proposed Articles of Incorporation
hereinafter set forth.[2]
The name of the proposed Authority shall be
the "Quaker Valley Ambulance Authority."
[Amended 9-14-1992 by Ord. No. 158[1]]
The proposed Articles are as follows.[2]
[1]
Editor's Note: This ordinance also repealed
original Section 5, Appointment of Board members, First Board, which
immediately followed this section. This provision, which dealt with
the appointment and terms of the initial Board members, is on file
and available for inspection in the office of the Borough Secretary/Treasurer.
[2]
Editor's Note: The Articles of Incorporation
are on file and available for inspection in the office of the Borough
Secretary/Treasurer.
Until such time as all of the incorporating
municipalities shall otherwise provide by resolution, the members
of the Board of the Authority shall receive no compensation for their
services as Board members; provided, however, that nothing herein
contained shall be deemed to prohibit the payment of compensation
as authorized by Section 7C of the aforesaid Municipality Authorities
Act of 1945, as amended,[1] to a member of such Board for services rendered as officer
of the Authority.
[1]
Editor's Note: See 53 P.S. § 309,
Subdivision C.
The Articles of Incorporation of the proposed Authority, in substantially the form set forth in § 9-4 of this article,[1] shall be executed on behalf of the Borough of Bell Acres
by the Mayor and by the President of the Borough Council and under
its Municipal Seal, attested by the Borough Secretary/Treasurer, and
such officers are hereby authorized, empowered and directed to do
all things necessary and appropriate to effect and establish said
Authority in conformity with the aforesaid Municipality Authorities
Act of 1945, its supplements and amendments.[2]
A.
Organization and start-up expenses. In order to fund
the proposed Authority with sufficient moneys to cover incorporation,
organization and start-up expenses, the Borough of Bell Acres hereby
assumes, as its fair share of such expenses, the payment of a per
capita assessment of $0.16 and in discharge of such commitment does
hereby appropriate the sum of $202.24, the same to be paid to or for
the account of said Authority from time to time and in such amounts
as the Borough Council may, by resolution or motion, authorize; provided,
however, that the other incorporating municipalities shall, by like
appropriations, have committed themselves to the payment of such initial
expenses in the following respective portions and amounts, viz:
|
Name
|
Amount
|
|---|---|
|
Township of Aleppo
|
$127.04
|
|
Township of Leet
|
$263.36
|
|
Borough of Edgeworth
|
$352.32
|
|
Borough of Glenfield
|
$64.96
|
|
Borough of Haysville
|
$24.64
|
|
Borough of Leetsdale
|
$297.92
|
|
Borough of Osborne
|
$92.64
|
|
Borough of Sewickley
|
$905.60
|
|
Borough of Sewickley Heights
|
$127.52
|
|
Borough of Sewickley Hills
|
$43.04
|
B.
Capital funds and operating expenses. In order to
fund the proposed Authority with sufficient moneys to cover capital
expenditures for equipment and housing and to cover the operating
expenses of such Authority, the Borough of Bell Acres hereby promises
and agrees with the Townships of Aleppo and Leet and the Boroughs
of Edgeworth, Glenfield, Haysville, Leetsdale, Osborne, Sewickley,
Sewickley Heights and Sewickley Hills that this Borough will, from
time to time and to the extent and in the manner provided by law,
appropriate from general funds or from funds derived from special
levy the same portion of the aggregate capital expenditures and operating
expenses of such Authority as the population of this Borough of Bell
Acres bears to the aggregate population of the Authority's primary
service area. For all computations required to be made hereunder,
the term "population," unless otherwise agreed by all of the incorporating
municipalities, shall mean the total number of inhabitants of this
Borough or of such primary service area as reported in the then most
recent enumeration thereof by the United States Bureau of the Census.
Notwithstanding any express or implied provision
hereof to the contrary, the Authority shall fix and collect reasonable
fees or charges for its services from recipients or users of such
services who are not residents of the Authority's primary service
area, and, should additional revenues be required to defray the full
cost of the aforesaid capital expenditures and operating expenses,
the Authority may fix and collect reasonable fees or charges for its
services from recipients or users thereof who are residents of such
primary service area.
