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City Council Minutes June 26, 1996 Page 2 this possibility. REQUEST TO PROCEED WITH THE PREPARATION OF FINAL PLANS AND SPECIFICATIONS FOR THE LARPENTEUR AVENUE STREETSCAPE PROJECT Michael Schroeder, the city's consulting landscape architect for the Larpenteur Avenue streetscape project, reported that the streetscape design has now been reviewed with a number of community groups at an open house. Ramsey County is near the final stage of designing the construction aspects of the Larpenteur project and Mr. Schroeder will be coordinating with county officials and with other interested entities to complete the final design plans and specifications. A number of items still need to be addressed at the design level, such as plant materials, re-routing of electrical lines, and sign locations. These can be addressed in conjunction with the design firm's review of the final construction plans. The city council would have the opportunity to review the final streetscape design plans during the plan preparation process and once again before the bidding process is authorized. Motion was made by Councilmember Kuettel to proceed with the next step of the streetscape design process and authorize a final design fee of $80,000 to cover design, civil, structural, electrical engineering, surveying, and lease/easement definition costs. Motion passed unanimously. RECOMMENDATION FROM THE EMS TASK FORCE Mayor Gehrz gave a brief background regarding the formation and composition of the Emergency Medical Services Task Force. The city's medical director has recommended that the city consider providing Advanced Life Support (ALS) service from the point of dispatch for its ambulance patients. The city council determined that it was important for Falcon Heights to have this service, and appointed a task force to determine a service delivery model that met the following criteria: 1) medical dispatching with pre-arrival information; 2) adding ALS from the point of dispatch; 3~ guaranteeing a response time that meets current EMS standards in an urban area; 4) following the city's policy as closely as possible that provides for ambulance users to cover the costs of the service through a fee for service; and 5) as a starting point, investigating how EMS might be shared and contracted with the St. Paul Fire Department. Councilmember Jacobs, chairman of the EMS task force, reported the task force's findings and recommendations: • • To contract with St. Paul Fire for ALS service and medical dispatching; • To arrange for Ramsey County Dispatch to "push a button" to send callers to the St. Paul Fire medical dispatcher;