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Commission Agenda Page 1 of 2 Montplaisir, Michael M. From: Sent: To: Subject: Mark A. Johnson [mjohnson@ndaco.org] Tuesday, June 25, 2002 5:02 PM Walter Kerbaugh; Alice Schulz; Anna Dockter; Barb Fleming; Barb Hettich; Betty Svihovec; Blanche Schumacher; Ceil Stedman; Coleen Vincent; Connie Gilbert; Darlene Koble; Dave Senger; Dorothy Robinson; Edward McGough; Frances Olson; Gayle Jastrzebski; Harris Bailey; Jan Stebbins; Janeil Rudel; Jerome Dosmann; Karen Eliason; Karin Fursather; Kevin Glatt; Lary Olson; Lawrence Hoffman; Linda Leadbetter; LuEIla Blumhardt; Mae Streich; Madan Hvinden; Michael Montplaisir; Michelle Sailer; Michial Johnson; Muriel Ulrich; Paul Trauger; Rebecca Braaten; Reinhard Hauck; Renita Braun; Roger Schlotman; Roy Steiner; Ruth Graf; Sherry Hosford; Shirley Murray; Susan Ritter; Sydney Hegge; Teri Baumann Commission Agenda Dear Auditor, After five years of legislative effort, months of negotiations with phone companies, and significant work on your part; we are finally ready to contract for Wireless 911 implementation. The Wireless 911 Committee has reviewed a single cost proposal involving a number of vendors for the necessary networking, non-premise equipment upgrades, and services; and the committee has recommended that NDACo enter into a contract on behalf of all of the counties and cities involved with 911. To do this, we need to ask you to put the attached Joint Powers "Acknowledgement" on your earliest possible Commission agenda. This acknowledgement establishes three things: It formally requests "Phase 1 and Phase 2 Wireless Service" from all providers in accordance with federal FCC roles and authorizes NDACo to forward that request as part of a statewide request to begin the technical implementation, It establishes the Wireless 911 Committee, composed of 911 coordinators, a county commissioner, and the acting director of State Radio, as a governance body to review project costs and oversee contract decisions, It binds the county to a five-year contract requiring that half of the county's wireless (not landline) revenue from June 1, 2002 to December 31, 2002 and then 50-cents per wireless device per month after that, be sent to NDACo for payment of project obligations. However this acknowledgement actually accomplishes several additional things as well: It addresses the county's obligation to begin implementation within 2 years, and therefore allows the expenditure of the Wireless 911 revenue and the consolidation of all 911 revenue into a single fund. Based on the direction of the Wireless 911 Committee, it allows every jurisdiction to retain 100% of the wireless revenue received up until May 31,2002 and combine it with the half retained by the county after June 1, 2002 for appropriate local expenditures, and It establishes a fixed cost framework for budgeting in the coming years. 6/26/2002