Title
Joint resolution authorizing the adoption and execution of an Intergovernmental Agreement (IGA) Establishing the Joint Emergency Telephone System Board of Lake County, Illinois.
Staff Summary
* An Emergency Telephone System Board (ETSB) receives 9-1-1 Surcharge funds and oversees the implementation and operation of the 9-1-1 Emergency Telephone System in a defined service area.
* Public Act 99-0006 has encouraged consolidation of ETSBs and 9-1-1 systems to advance public safety and to encourage the best use of government funds.
* The Lake County, Northeast Lake County, Joint Central Lake County, Vernon Hills, CenCom, and Fox Lake ETSBs were created by ordinance or intergovernmental agreement and certified to operate a 9-1-1 system.
* As part of 9-1-1 consolidation in Lake County, the authorities that established the above ETSBs desire to cooperate and form the new Joint ETSB of Lake County to support 9-1-1 consolidation and the new consolidated PSAP, Lake Consolidated Emergency Communications (LakeComm).
* The Parties have determined that a Joint ETSB would be beneficial on an individual and mutual basis to the residents and agencies served by all the individual units of local government.
* The Effective Date for the new Joint ETSB of Lake County will occur with the: (1) adoption by the individual corporate authorities of the Parties to this IGA and (2) final approval by the State 9-1-1 Administrator.
* In accordance with State statute, upon establishment of the Joint ETSB of Lake County on the Effective Date, the County will rescind its ETSB Ordinance and disestablish the Lake County ETSB.
* After the Effective Date, 9-1-1 surcharge monies currently collected from the Lake County ETSB service area will be paid directly to the new Joint ETSB of Lake County.
* After the Effective Date, the Joint Emergency Telephone System Board of Lake County (the "Board") will consist of nine (9) Members of which two (2) Members will be appointed by the Lake County Board....
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