IN THE COUNTY LEGISLATURE OF JACKSON COUNTY, MISSOURI
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A RESOLUTION authorizing the County Executive to execute a Service Application for Enhanced 9-1-1 Service and a Purchase Order with the Mid-America Regional Council and other member counties and Southwestern Bell Telephone Co., relating to the upgrade and improvement of the regional E 9-1-1 emergency telephone system, at an additional one-time cost to the County in 1996 of $550,065.00.
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RESOLUTION #11127, January 16, 1996
INTRODUCED BY Victor E. Callahan, County Legislator
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WHEREAS, a regional 9-1-1 system provides emergency telephone service for Jackson, Platte, and Cass Counties in Missouri, and Johnson, Leavenworth, and Wyandotte Counties in Kansas (hereinafter referred to as "the Counties"); and,
WHEREAS, for over 12 years the Counties have worked cooperatively with one another and with public safety agencies and telephone companies to plan and implement this 9-1-1 system; and,
WHEREAS, K.S.A. 12-5301 and RSMo. 190.300 authorize Kansas and Missouri counties to levy surcharges on telephone service to finance the 9-1-1 system and to make appropriate expenditures for its implementation; and,
WHEREAS, the Mid-America Regional Council (hereinafter referred to as "MARC") has coordinated the planning and implementation of the regional 9-1-1 system since its inception; and,
WHEREAS, a committee of MARC, with representatives from all of the Counties and other public safety agencies (hereinafter referred to as "the Policy Task Force"), has undertaken a study of the region's 9-1-1 system to assess its strengths and weaknesses and to recommend policies relating to the upgrade, expansion, cost-sharing and ongoing coordination of the 9-1-1 System; and,
WHEREAS, the Policy Task Force developed a policy statement that was approved by the MARC Board of Directors on November 30, 1993, and by several of the County governments served by the system (hereinafter referred t...
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