Drafter
Clerk 03/29/2023
Title
AN ORDINANCE authorizing the provision of radio communication services to external agencies; and adding a new section to K.C.C. chapter 2.58.
Body
PREAMBLE:
The King County Code established the emergency radio communications services system to improve the ability of government agencies throughout King County to respond in a coordinated manner to a major disaster and enhance the safety of front-line emergency response personnel. Executive Policy FES 10-1 (A-P), executed in 1988 gave the authority for King County radio communication services, which was formerly radio communication and repair shop, to provide all user agencies the policies and procedures relating to planning, engineering, installation, transferring, maintenance, and administration support. Over the past thirty-four years King County radio communication services, which is currently known as the emergency radio communications division, has been providing that service to external agencies providing a critical public safety service by maintaining the operation of both the 800Mhz emergency radio system infrastructure and the mobile and portable subscriber radios. This ordinance will authorize the continuity of public safety services provided by the emergency radio communications division throughout the region.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF KING COUNTY:
NEW SECTION. SECTION 1. There is hereby added to K.C.C. chapter 2.58 a new section to read as follows:
The emergency radio communications division is authorized to enter into service contracts with all city, county, regional, state, special district, tribal and federal agencies,
nonprofit corporations, private customers, and any emergency radio subscribers, for the purpose of providing radio subscriber services.