Drafter
Clerk 05/11/2017
Title
AN ORDINANCE authorizing the county executive to sign a twenty-five year lease agreement enabling the Puget Sound Emergency Radio Network project to occupy and use the city of Kent's repeater site.
Body
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 city of Kent site, referred to as the Kent repeater site by PSERN, 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 city of Kent that would enable the PSERN project to use the Kent repeater site, located at 12523 SE 286th Place, Auburn, Washington, in council district seven.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF KING COUNTY:
SECTION 1. The executive is authorized to execute a lease for the Kent repeater site with the city of Kent, substantially in the form of Attachment A to this ordinance, and to take all actions necessary to implement the terms of the lease.