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MOTION: It was m/s by Brown/Pentin to waive full reading and adopt Resolution No. 12-589 calling for the holding of an All Mail Ballot Special Municipal Election on Tuesday, May 7, 2013, to fill a City Council Vacancy and to authorize an appropriation in the amount of $250,000 from the General Fund Contingency to the City Clerk Election Budget. Motion carried by the following vote: Ayes: Councilmembers Brown, Cook-Kallio, Pentin, Mayor Thorne Noes: None Absent: One Vacancy 17. Selection of Vice Mayor and confirm appointments of City Council Members to various Council Subcommittees and Local and Regional Boards and Commissions City Manager Fialho stated that Mayor Thorne identified and appointment. Council members to serve on various local and regional committees and subcommittees, as reflected in the staff report attachment. The Council is being asked to ratify these appointments as well as to appoint a Vice- Mayor. Mayor Thorne said he has asked Councilmember Cook-Kallio to serve as Vice-Mayor. MOTION: It was m/s by Pentin/Brown to approve, accept and confirm appointments of Cook- Kallio as Vice-Mayor and of Council members to various Council Subcommittees and Local and Regional Boards and Commissions. Motion carried by the following vote: Ayes: Councilmembers Brown, Cook-Kallio, Pentin, Mayor Thorne Noes: None Absent: One Vacancy Vice-Mayor Cook-Kallio said she appreciated the appointment to Vice-Mayor but observed that she was appointed as an alternate to some of the transportation commissions and committees she had specifically requested appointment to. She also noted that she was the only candidate in this last election who was in favor of transportation funding and said she would have liked to have seen someone strongly in favor of both transportation funding and transportation projects appointed to these seats. 18. Approve an agreement with the Veterans Administration Medical Center-Livermore and Livermore-Pleasanton Fire Department to provide emergency services, and a revenue sharing agreement with City of Livermore Fire Chief McGill presented the staff report, stating that in July 2012 the Alameda County Fire Department was awarded the bid to protect the Lawrence Livermore Laboratory, Sandia Laboratory and Site 300. In order to allow them the most competitive bid the department changed their deployment model and closed Fire Station 8 located on College Avenue in the middle of the City of Livermore. In moving from Station 8, the County no longer meets the response requirements for the Veteran's Administration Hospital. At approximately the same time, the Livermore-Pleasanton Fire Department (LPFD) moved from the City of Livermore Police Dispatch to the Alameda County Regional Emergency Communications Center. The federal government subsequently issued an RFP seeking fire protection for the hospital and LPFD is the only department capable of provided the level of service required by federal guidelines. LPFD submitted and was awarded a five-year bid totaling a little over $4.3 million, which is based on an average cost per call multiplied by the number of calls anticipated to the hospital. The average cost per call was determined using the entire LPFD operating budget because the bid City Council Minutes Page 5 of 7 December 4, 2012