Drafter
Clerk 07/02/2003
title
AN ORDINANCE waiving certain statutory and code requirements relating to the King County correctional facility integrated security project; and declaring an emergency.
body
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF KING COUNTY:
SECTION 1. Findings:
A. The electronic security system in the King County correctional facility ("KCCF") provides security alarm monitoring of the building perimeter and interior doors, remote door control of inmate movement and cell doors, and includes intercom and other communications systems, utility control systems and elevator control systems. The security system is a critical component of the jail system. When properly functioning, the security system provides a safe and secure environment to KCCF staff, inmates, and the public. If the system does not function properly, jail security could be compromised. The present equipment in most cases dates from the original construction of the KCCF nearly twenty years ago.
B. The metropolitan King County council placed a proviso on the 2003 annual budget for the replacement of the KCCF electronic security system, known as the integrated security project ("ISP"), pending the council approval of an operational master plan ("OMP") for the KCCF.
C. The metropolitan King County council recognized in said proviso the potential for the executive to propose amending or repealing portions of the requirements of the proviso as to elements of the ISP as a result of evaluation of the OMP quarterly reports and cost/benefit and risk analysis of the ISP.
D. The office of management and budget and the King County auditor's office are jointly leading an OMP advisory group, which includes representatives from both the executive and legislative branches of King County government.
E. The OMP Advisory Group has procured an OMP consultant, Christopher Murray & Associates, with an electronic jail security system expert, On Line Electric, as a subconsultant to prov...
Click here for full text