Drafter
Clerk 03/20/2017
Title
AN ORDINANCE authorizing the county executive to sign a ten-year license agreement enabling the Puget Sound Emergency Radio Network project to occupy and use a portion of the United States of America's Cougar Mountain communications site.
Body
STATEMENT OF FACTS:
1. King County has established a capital improvement project ("the PSERN project") to build the Puget Sound Emergency Radio Network ("PSERN").
2. King County adopted Proposition 1 and Ordinances 17993, 18074 and 18075, to fund the planning, deployment and testing of PSERN.
3. King County entered into a contract with Motorola Solutions, Inc., that requires Motorola to identify the sites needed for PSERN's communications equipment together with a list of equipment needed at each site. Motorola identified a location near Issaquah, Washington, within the United States of America's Cougar Mountain communications site, as one of the needed sites.
4. The PSERN project, with the oversight of the county's facilities management division, successfully negotiated a license agreement with the Department of the Army, on behalf of the United States of America, that would enable the PSERN project to use the Cougar Mountain communications site, located in council district nine.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF KING COUNTY:
SECTION 1. The executive is authorized to execute a license agreement for the Cougar Mountain communications site with the Department of the Army, on behalf of the
United States of America, substantially in the form of Attachment A to this ordinance, and to take all actions necessary to implement the terms of the license agreement.