While officials continue to hammer out the final details of a city — municipality partnership for EMS in five municipalities, the City of Warren has established terms and a fee that will govern how city assets respond to the municipalities without such a partnership.

The council’s action on Monday approved an ordinance that will implement a $500 fee to a municipality where the city responds.

Fire Chief Dave Krogler said that the agreement with the EMS commission (Mead, Pleasant, Cherry Grove, Sheffield and Clarendon) is “a separate agreement outside of this.”

That agreement sets the rate at $300 for a response and $150 for a dispatch where the city is told to turn around en route.

The higher rate will be billed to a municipality when the city responds without such an agreement.

Krogler, however, said on Monday that “if other municipalities are willing to enter into agreements, we are willing to look at those.”

City Solicitor Andrea Stapleford said that the ordinance requires a 90-day notice period to the county’s municipalities.

“We anticipate the EMS workload is going to continue,” Mayor Dave Wortman said, calling that effort the “implementation of some pretty dynamic agreements.”