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Town Board of the Town of Hamburg August 24, 2026 Meeting 4.24. Amended EAF Resolution Concerning the Establishment of the Proposed Town of Hamburg Ambulance District WHEREAS, the Town Board of the Town of Hamburg, New York, County of Erie (“Town”) has determined that the availability of reliable, adequately staffed, and properly equipped emergency medical and ambulance services and vehicles within the Town is critical to maintaining the health, safety and welfare of those within the Town; WHEREAS, the Town Board, pursuant to Article 12-a of the New York Town Law, desires to establish the Town of Hamburg Ambulance District (“Ambulance District”) to provide adequate funding, and a stable and sustainable funding mechanism, to meet the emergency medical and ambulance services needs within the Town; and WHEREAS, the formation of the Ambulance District will require the Town to comply with the New York State Environmental Quality Review Act (Article 8 of the Environmental Conservation Law and its implementing regulations at 6 NYCRR Part 617; “SEQRA”); and WHEREAS, the Town prepared a Short Environmental Assessment Form that evaluates the potential environmental impacts of the Ambulance District; and WHEREAS, on Monday, August 10, 2026, the Town Board passed a Resolution (i) determining that the formation of the Ambulance District is an Unlisted Action, and therefore can conduct an uncoordinated environmental review of the proposed action, deferring to other involved agencies each to make independent determinations of environmental significance; and (ii) accepting the Short Environmental Assessment Form for the Ambulance District; and WHEREAS, the Town has become aware that the Short Environmental Assessment Form that the Town Board accepted for the Ambulance District included an inconsistency regarding the identification of the potential boundaries of the Ambulance District; and WHEREAS, the Town has prepared an Amended Short Environmental Assessment Form that corrects the inconsistency, and which did not identify any new or different potential environmental impacts; and WHEREAS, under the Amended Short Environmental Assessment Form, it remains that the formation of the District will not require any bonding, cash outlay, new development, construction, or physical work by the Town for the District, and as such, it remains that there are no anticipated environmental impacts; and 101