Drafter
Clerk 05/20/2015
Title
A MOTION requesting that the executive develop and transmit a report identifying milestones for oversight of the implementation of the Puget Sound Emergency Radio Network.
Body
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;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT MOVED by the Council of King County:
A. The executive shall develop and transmit to the council a report that identifies expected milestones throughout the Puget Sound Emergency Radio Network ("PSERN") implementation process and designate which at which milestones oversight by the council would be appropriate. At a minimum, the report shall include:
1. A description of the anticipated PSERN implementation milestones throughout the PSERN implementation process, including, but not limited to, system vendor-related milestones, architecture and engineering milestones and system testing milestones; and
2. A timeline for transmittal of an oversight report to the council that corresponds with ...

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