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Ordinance rescinding Chapter 31 County Organizations of the Lake County Code of Ordinances - Emergency Telephone System Board Ordinance.
Staff Summary
• Lake County enacted an ordinance providing for the establishment of the Emergency Telephone System Board (ETSB) in 1990 for the Lake County 9-1-1 Service Area.
• At its June 2024 meeting, the Lake County Board approved and adopted an intergovernmental agreement (IGA) which consolidated multiple Public Safety Answering Points (PSAPs) in Lake County into a centralized dispatch and communication center known as LakeComm, for the purpose of providing facilities, equipment, personnel, software, data processing and all other services necessary to the provisions of emergency and/or municipal dispatch and communication services to its members.
• Also at its June 2024 meeting, the Lake County Board approved and adopted an IGA that established the Joint Emergency System Board (JETSB) of Lake County.
• The JETSB is currently working to receive approval from the Illinois Statewide 9-1-1 Administrator and this dissolution needs to occur in order to proceed.
• The dissolution would be effective upon the approval of the JETSB application. All assets, contracts, and agreements held by and all surcharge revenue and funds currently held will be transferred to the JETSB of Lake County.
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ORDINANCE
WHEREAS, the County of Lake enacted an Ordinance providing for the establishment of the Emergency Telephone System Board for the Lake County 9-1-1 Service Area on January 9, 1990; and
WHEREAS, since the last amendment to the ETSB Ordinance in November of 2018, the landscape has changed such that it is in the best interest of the County to rescind this Ordinance and become a Member of the newly established Joint Emergency Telephone System Board of Lake County; and
WHEREAS, on June 11, 2024, the Lake County Board approved and adopted an Intergovernmental Agreements (hereinafter referred to as IGA), which consolidated multiple PSAPs in Lake County into a centralized dispatch and communication center known as LAKECOMM for the purpose of providing facilities, equipment, personnel, software, data processing and all other services necessary or incidental to the provisions of emergency and/or municipal dispatch and communication services to its members; and
WHEREAS, on June 11, 2024, the Lake County Board approved and adopted an Intergovernmental Agreement that established the JOINT EMERGENCY SYSTEM BOARD OF LAKE COUNTY (JETSB) in conformity with Section 15.4 of the Illinois Emergency Telephone Act, 50 ILCS 750/1 et seq. and defines the duties and powers of the JETSB in compliance with the Illinois Emergency Telephone Act 50 ILCS 750/1 et seq.; and
WHEREAS, upon the JETSB of Lake County and LakeComm becoming jointly operational and providing enhanced emergency fire and police dispatching to its members and upon approval of the Illinois Statewide 9-1-1 Administrator as evidenced by an order of the Administrator, the IGAs provides that the Lake County ETSB shall suspend the operation and participation in the Lake County Emergency Telephone System Board; and
WHEREAS, the Lake County Emergency Telephone System Board shall not operate as the County’s Emergency Telephone System Board unless and until the County would terminate its membership in the Joint Emergency Telephone System Board of Lake County and receive approval of the Illinois Statewide 9-1-1 Administrator as evidenced by an order of the Illinois Statewide 9-1-1 Administrator to once again operate as an Emergency Telephone System Board and receive surcharge funds collected pursuant to an approved Lake County ETSB Ordinance.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED, by this County Board of Lake County, Illinois, that the Lake County Emergency Telephone System Board shall suspend operation as an Emergency Telephone System Board as of the date the Illinois Statewide 9-1-1 Administrator permits the County to operate as a member of the JOINT EMERGENCY TELEPHONE SYSTEM BOARD of LAKE COUNTY; and
BE IT FURTHER ORDAINED, that thereafter, the part of Chapter 31 of the Lake County Code of Ordinances titled “Emergency Telephone System Board,” which provided for the establishment of the Lake County Emergency Telephone System Board for the defined Lake County Service Area (§§ 31.080-31.090), be rescinded; and
BE IT FURTHER ORDAINED, that the Lake County Emergency Telephone System Board shall not operate as an Emergency Telephone System Board and receive surcharge funds collected pursuant to the rescinded County Ordinance; and
BE IT FURTHER ORDAINED, that any and all assets, contracts and agreements held by the Lake County Emergency Telephone System Board be transferred to a successor entity; and
BE IT FURTHER ORDAINED, that all surcharge funds currently held in the surcharge account of the Lake County Emergency Telephone System Board shall be transferred to the JOINT EMERGENCY TELEPHONE SYSTEM BOARD of LAKE COUNTY; and
BE IT FURTHER ORDAINED, that the County Board be empowered to take any actions necessary to finalize the affairs of the Lake County Emergency Telephone System Board, should any post-dissolution activities be necessary to achieve the consolidation of its affairs with the successor entity or entities.
DATED at Waukegan, Illinois, on April 8, 2025.