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AN ORDINANCE authorizing the county executive to sign a twenty-five year lease enabling the Puget Sound Emergency Radio Network project to occupy and use a portion of the Suquamish Tribe of the Port Madison Indian Reservation's communications site.
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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 the Suquamish site of the Suquamish Tribe of the Port Madison Indian Reservation's 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 lease with the Suquamish Tribe of the Port Madison Indian Reservation that would enable the PSERN project to use the Suquamish site, located at 22063 Dewberry Road NE, Indianola, Washington, in Kitsap County.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF KING COUNTY:
SECTION 1. The executive is authorized to execute a lease for the Suquamish site with the Suquamish Tribe of the Port Madison Indian Reservation, substantially in
the form of Attachment A to this ordinance, and to take all actions necessary to implement the terms of the lease.