15-017 - King County / City of Tukwila et al - Puget Sound Emergency Radio Network / Implementation Interlocal Cooperation Agreement

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PUGET SOUND EMERGENCY RADIO NETWORK IMPLEMENTATION PERIOD INTERLOCAL COOPERATION AGREEMENT This Interlocal Cooperation Agreement ( "Agreement ") is entered into pursuant to the Interlocal Cooperation Act (Chapter 39.34 RCW) by and among King County ( "County ") and the Cities of Auburn, Bellevue, Federal Way, Issaquah, Kent, Kirkland, Mercer Island, Redmond, Renton, Seattle and Tukwila, each a political subdivision of the State of Washington (individually, a "Party," and collectively, the "Parties "). RECITALS A. The Parties, under various interlocal agreements, including the Emergency Radio Communications System Interlocal Cooperation Agreement, are responsible for the ownership, operations and maintenance of various elements in the current King County Emergency Radio Communications System (KCERCS), a voice radio system that is nearly twenty years old and is increasingly unsupported by the supplier of the system's equipment, software and repairs. B. The Parties have determined that it is in the public interest that a new public safety radio system be implemented that will provide public safety agencies and other user groups in the region with improved coverage and capacity, and uniformly high- quality emergency radio communications at a cost - effective price. Said new system is referred to herein as the "Puget Sound Emergency Radio Network System" or "PSERN System." C. The Parties seek to finance the costs of implementing the PSERN System by a funding measure to be placed on the ballot by the King County Council for consideration by the qualified electorate in King County. D. The Parties desire that the County act as the lead agency for planning, procurement, financing and implementation of the PSERN System and that a new non - profit corporation will be formed to assume the ownership and control of the PSERN System following Full System Acceptance. E. The purpose of this Agreement is to establish the terms under which the Parties will undertake the planning, financing, procurement, site acquisition and development, equipment installation, and other activities necessary to implement the PSERN System. F. Concurrent with this Agreement, the Parties are entering into the "Memorandum of Agreement Regarding Future Operation of Puget Sound Emergency Radio Network" (the MOA) to establish agreement to some of the material terms of a future interlocal agreement for governance of the new non - profit corporation, referred to herein as the "PSERN Operator", that will be created by the Parties and be responsible for the 3