08 amending the City Code to establish Fire Department cost recovery for certain motor vehicle crash responses. The City Manager’s memo explains that from 2022–2025 the Fire Department responded to 672 crashes, committing 451 hours of personnel and apparatus time, and that the new ordinance sets hourly fees for non-transport vehicles ($250/hour) and non-transport responders ($70/hour) with a one-hour minimum and 15-minute increments thereafter, effective July 1, 2026. This ordinance creates a new billing and revenue-recovery workflow for specialized fire services similar to ambulance billing, with discretion for the Fire Chief to waive or reduce fees.While not a procurement by itself, this policy change can drive needs for billing software or services, incident data integration, collection processes and reporting. Vendors in EMS/fire billing, RMS integration, or policy and financial consulting can position to help the City operationalize the new fee structure and optimize cost recovery from insurers and responsible parties.

The memo emphasizes that the primary purpose is to recover some costs of resource-intensive crash responses, not purely revenue generation, and references the need to coordinate with the consolidated fee schedule.