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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 multip...
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