Item #3 Austin Travis County Emergency Medical Services Budget Presentation — original pdf
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Emergency Medical Services Department Review June 3, 2024 City of Austin, TX EMS Department Budget Overview FY 2024 Totals at a Glance... FY 2024 Approved Budget FY 2024 Positions FY 2024 Sources FY 2024 Revenue $129.8 million Sworn: 689 Civilians: 162.5 Tax Supported: 62.8% Fees: 37.2% $48.2 million Office of the Chief Medical Officer 3.0% Support Services 4.5% Program Budget Highlights 12 new FTEs for new Canyon Creek station 19 FTEs transferred to EMS due to moving Office of the Chief Medical Officer to EMS 9 new sworn FTEs and 1 civilian for C4 (Unfunded) 3 new FTEs for Airport program Transfers and Other Requirements 17.8% Other 4.6% Emergency Communications 6.2% Employee Development & Wellness 3.4% Operations 60.6% EMS Department Budget Overview FY2025 Forecast FY2025 Forecast FY2025 Positions $139.9 million* Sworn: 701 Civilians: 163.50 FY2025 Revenue $51 million EMS FY2025 Budget Highlights Personnel Cost Drivers Interfund Transfers Operating Increases Remove one-time funding $8.15M $955K $1.17M ($275K) Total *Estimate: The FY2025 Budget is still under development, pending City Council approval. $10.01 M* or 7.7% Unmet Needs 1. Continue Unfunded Existing Programs– (4 FTEs $1,162,017 on-going, one-time $20,000) CASTMED and Support to APD Specialty Teams $732K 2. EMS Communications - (6 FTEs, $625,401 on-going, one-time $60,000) FTEs to allow us to meet the national standard to answer 911 call in less than 10 seconds 90% of the time. $845K 3. North Central ALS Truck– (12 FTEs $1,291,785 on-going, one-time $672,777) ALS unit in North Burnet/Gateway neighborhood (Domain/Q2) $1.9M 4. Downtown Area Command(DTAC) (14 FTEs $1,460,550 on-going, one-time $1,902,931) $3.4M Create a new Command District within downtown Austin core 5. Basic Life Support (BLS) Trucks(12 FTEs $5,557,297 on-going $200,000 one-time $2,436,212) Adding BLS unit in conjunction with C4 to meet the increased demand $1.7M $8.6M Total