24-15 Authorizing Execution of emsCharts Agreement.pdf

24-15 January 6, 2015 RESOLUTION WHEREAS, the Township of West Orange (the “Township”), through the Township’s Fire Department, provides emergency ambulance transport services to residents and visitors of the Township; and WHEREAS, provision of the foregoing services entails substantial annual cost, the cost of which can be offset by charging medical insurance companies a user fee for ambulance transport services; and WHEREAS, following competitive bidding, by adoption of Resolution 160-13 on August 20, 2013, the Township authorized the award of a third-party billing contract to Revenue Guard, a New Jersey corporation with a principal business address of 50 U.S. Highway 9, Morganville, New Jersey, 07751 (“RevGuard”); and WHEREAS, pursuant to the Township’s agreement with RevGuard, RevGuard is responsible for all costs related to software utilized in connection with the third-party billing services provided to the Township by RevGuard; and WHEREAS, the software currently utilized in connection with the third-party billing services provided to the Township by RevGuard is owned by emsCharts, Inc. (“emsCharts”); and WHEREAS, emsCharts has requested that the Township execute a Service Agreement in the form annexed hereto as Attachment “A”; and WHEREAS, the foregoing Service Agreement, in accord with the Township’s agreement with RevGuard, provides that RevGuard shall pay all costs associated with the software provided by emsCharts;

2 NOW, BE IT HEREBY RESOLVED BY THE TOWNSHIP COUNCIL OF THE TOWNSHIP OF WEST ORANGE, that the Township shall and hereby does authorize execution of the Service Agreement, to be executed in the form annexed hereto as Attachment “A”; and be it further RESOLVED, that the Mayor be and is hereby authorized to execute all documents necessary to effectuate such agreement between the Township and emsCharts, and the Municipal Clerk shall be and is hereby authorized to attest to the Mayor’s signature; and be it further RESOLVED, that this Resolution shall be published and made available in the Clerk’s Office for reasonable inspection in accordance with applicable law. Karen J. Carnevale Jerry Guarino Municipal Clerk Council President Adopted: January 6, 2015 4822-6954-6017, v. 1