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PROVINCE OF BRITISH COLUMBIA

EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICES COMMISSION

1061 FORT STREET
VICTORIA, B.C.

TELEPHONE 367-5161

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May 28th, 1974

To Agencies funding ambulance services:

You may be avare that it is the Government's intention that the
Emergency Health Services Commission will become active on or ahout
July Ist this vear. The first function of the Commission will be to
begin the process of funding the services that exist currently in the
Province. ,

Because of the limited preparatory time that was available this process
will necessarily be a progressive one and it is quite improbable that
in any general sense the total funding can be absorbed as of July Ist.
It is expected, however, that during the course of a six month period
this conversion of local or other sources of funding to Provincial
funding will be completed.

It will be necessary to make some initial assumptions for first dispersals
of funds and then to review these over a period of time and modify them

as indicated. In instances where it is clear through running analyses
that the initial approximations have been inappropriate, then there will,
of course, be a need to make retroactive adjustment to the commencement
date of July Ist. .

The primary purpose of this letter is to request that the agencies
currently involved, either wholly or in part, with funding these services
avoid actions that assume that their involvement or participation will
cease totally on July Ist. Rather, we would ask that they continue to
the extent necessary to support the services in their area in the manner
that they have done traditionally, but as the progressive transfer of
the funding from local to Provincial responsibility occurs, they then

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