[Ord. No. 301,
passed 6-8-1971; Res. No. 02-33, passed 6-12-2002]
The Board finds and therefore declares that it is necessary
that an adequate public ambulance 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 Township,
and that such service can be most efficiently and economically furnished
by means of an intercommunity municipal authority jointly sponsored
by the Township of Crescent, the Borough of Coraopolis and the Townships
of Moon, Neville, and Findlay 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.
[Ord. No. 301,
passed 6-8-1971; Res. No. 02-33, passed 6-12-2002]
It is therefore the joint desire and intention of the Township
of Crescent and of the Borough of Coraopolis and the Townships of
Moon, Neville and Findlay, all municipal corporations of the Commonwealth
of Pennsylvania and all situate 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, for the purpose of exercising and enjoying
all of the powers conferred by said Act, its supplements and amendments.
[Ord. No. 301,
passed 6-8-1971]
The name of the proposed authority shall be: "Valley Ambulance
Authority".
[Ord. No. 301,
passed 6-8-1971; Res. No. 02-33, passed 6-12-2002]
The purpose of the Authority is to provide ambulance equipment
and facilities and to furnish ambulance service to the inhabitants
of the Township of Crescent, the Borough of Coraopolis and the Townships
of Moon, Neville and Findlay, and to the inhabitants of such adjoining
political subdivisions or areas as may desire such service.
[Ord. No. 301,
passed 6-8-1971; Res. No. 02-33, passed 6-12-2002]
The Board of the Authority shall consist of 11 members, each
of whom, except for those who shall be members of the first Board
of the Authority, shall be appointed for terms of five years each.
The members of the Board of the Authority shall be apportioned among
the several municipalities as follows:
|
Municipality
|
Number of Board Members
| |
|---|---|---|
|
Borough of Coraopolis
|
2
| |
|
Township of Crescent
|
2
| |
|
Township of Moon
|
3
| |
|
Township of Neville
|
2
| |
|
Township of Findlay
|
2
|
|
Whenever a vacancy has occurred or is about to
occur by reason of the expiration of the term of any member, the participating
municipality which appointed the member whose term has expired or
is about to expire shall appoint a successor for a full term of five
years.
|
[Ord. No. 301,
passed 6-8-1971]
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, to
a member of such Board for services rendered as an officer of the
Authority.
[Ord. No. 301,
passed 6-8-1971]
In order to fund the proposed Authority with sufficient moneys
to cover incorporation, organization and start-up expenses, the Township
of Crescent hereby assumes, as its fair share of such expenses, the
payment of 2/9 thereof and in discharge of such commitment does hereby
appropriate the sum of $400 therefor, the same to be paid to or for
the account of said Authority from time to time and in such amounts
as the Board of Commissioners 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: Borough of Coraopolis, 2/9, or $400, Township of Moon, 3/9, or
$600 and, Township of Neville, 2/9, or $400.
