R2000-262 AUTHORIZING EXECUTION OF AGREEMENT

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POLICE DEPARTMENT MEMORANDUM Memorandum#00-111 TO: Mayor Terry Howley and the Decatur City Council FROM: Steve Garman, City Manger Michael L. Mowen, Chief of Police Michael E. Buckley, Commander-Emergency Communication Division DATE: December 7, 2000 SUBJECT: Revised Interagency Agreement between the City of Decatur and the Macon County Emergency Telephone System Board BACKGROUND In 1997, Macon County formed an Emergency Telephone System Board ("ETSB") for the purposes of designing and implementing an Enhanced 9-1-1 telephone system for all of Macon County. Currently the City of Decatur and Macon County are operating a BASIC 9-1-1 system. Under the terms of the agreement with Macon County, the Decatur Police Department (Emergency Communication Division) answers all 9-1-1 phone calls for Macon County and the City of Decatur. � It was agreed that it would beneficial to both parties and the citizens of the City of Decatur and Macon County to have all 9-1-1 phone operations and radio dispatch centrally located in the single Emergency Communication Center under the operations the Decatur Police Department. In December of 1998, the City of Decatur and the ETSB entered into an interagency agreement for the City of Decatur to provide the actual service of answering the Enhanced 9-1-1 calls, thus becoming the Public Safety Answering Point ("PSAP") for the Enhanced 9-1-1 System. This agreement was approved by the City Council (Resolution No. R98-173.) !, One of the major provisions of the original agreement involved the reimbursement to the City of ', Decatur by the ETSB for staffing to perform the duties of answering 9-1-1 calls and supervising ', the operations. However, based on a ruling by the Illinois Attorney General and the ICC, the �I reimbursement portion of the original agreement was later deternuned to be invalid. The staffing i� reimbursement of the original agreement was to begin in the first year of the interagency � agreement (1999), with increase staffing reimbursement added each year of the four year agreement. Since the referendum and the subsequent county ordinance authorizing and creating the ETSB had utilized language identifying the purpose as the creation and operation of an '� Enhanced 9-1-1, there could be no funding for the current operations that are still BASIC 9-1-1. As a result of that ruling, the ETSB has not been legally pernutted to comply with the reimbursement terms of the original agreement. ; Implemenation of Enhanced 9-1-1 is planned for 2001. As such, it was necessary to renegotiate I'I that interagency agreement with the ETSB. That has been done, with increased staffin� reimbursements provided for in the revised a�reement. The Macon County Emergency Telephone