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Clerk 02/17/2021
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A MOTION approving the Puget Sound Emergency Radio Network operator articles of incorporation and proposed bylaws to provide policies and rules for the conduct of meetings, proceedings and business for the Puget Sound Emergency Radio Network Operator board of directors.
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WHEREAS, King County currently has a countywide emergency public safety radio network. The King County Emergency Radio Communication System ("KCERCS") supports over seventeen thousand radios and nearly two hundred separate police, fire, emergency medical and other governmental agencies, and
WHEREAS, KCERCS is over twenty years old and is increasingly unsupported by the supplier of the system's equipment, software and related parts, and
WHEREAS, the cities of Auburn, Bellevue, Federal Way, Issaquah, Kent, Kirkland, Mercer Island, Redmond, Renton, Seattle and Tukwila and King County ("the parties") determined that it is in the public interest that a new public safety radio system, referred to as the Puget Sound Emergency Radio Network ("PSERN"), be implemented to provide public safety agencies and other user groups in the region with improved coverage and capacity, as well as uniformly high-quality radio communications, and
WHEREAS, the parties entered the Puget Sound Emergency Radio Network Implementation Period Interlocal Cooperation Agreement ("the implementation period ILA") that designates King County as the lead agency for planning, procurement, financing, implementation and limited operation of PSERN. The implementation period ILA also establishes a Joint Board to oversee the PSERN project implementation, and
WHEREAS, the owners of KCERCS each agreed to make their 800 MHz frequencies available to the PSERN project to be used in the new PSERN system and to eventually be licensed in the name of the Puget Sound Emergency Radio Network Operator, and
WHEREAS, the parties have negotiated a separate agreement, the Puget Sound Emergency Radio Network Ope...

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