Drafter
Clerk 09/22/2015
Title
A MOTION acknowledging the receipt of a report relating to implementation of the Puget Sound Emergency Radio Network and establishing a schedule for oversight reporting.
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WHEREAS, on April 28, 2015, King County voters approved a nine-year, $273 million property tax levy to fund the Puget Sound Emergency Radio Network ("PSERN"), and
WHEREAS, PSERN will replace and upgrade King County's nearly twenty-year-old emergency radio network, which is used to dispatch responders to incidents and to allow responders to communicate with each other at those incidents, and
WHEREAS, King County will be responsible for leading and implementing PSERN through full-system acceptance, which is the date on which PSERN becomes fully operational, and
WHEREAS, the implementation of the replacement system will be complex with multiple tasks, including the acquisition of radios, consoles, transmitters and data systems, and will include radio site design, acquisition and construction, and
WHEREAS, PSERN is expected to be completed five years after implementation begins, and
WHEREAS, the council will need to ensure proper oversight of all of the elements of the procurement over the multiyear period of implementation, and
WHEREAS, the executive transmitted a report to council, as required by Motion 14369, that describes the anticipated PSERN implementation milestones over the life of the project and proposes a quarterly reporting schedule to the council;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT MOVED by the Council of King County:
A. The receipt of 2015-RPT0134, a report identifying milestones for oversight of the implementation of the Puget Sound Emergency Radio Network (PSERN), responding to Motion 14369, is hereby acknowledged.
B. Beginning January 2016, the executive shall brief the law, justice and
emergency management committee, or its successor, quarterly on the status of the PSERN project in relation to the milestones outlined in 2015-RP...

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