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Member Bill Hawes introduced the following resolution and
moved its adoption:
RESOLUTION NO. 83 -115
RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING EXECUTION OF AN AGREEMENT BETWEEN
THE CITY OF BROOKLYN CENTER AND HENNEPIN COUNTY REGARDING
CONTINGENCY PLAN FOR EMERGENCY COMMUNICATIONS
WHEREAS, "PSAP" or "Public Safety Answering Point" means a communication
facility which receives 911 calls and either dispatches, entends, transfers, or
relays the calls to appropriate public safety agencies; and
WHEREAS, the experience of public safety officials and other emergency
public service providers indicates a specific need for back -up contingency plans
for all PSAP'S operating within the County of Hennepin in the event of a PSAP
failure, for the express purposes of obtaining emergency public assistance; and
WHEREAS, an agreement has been proposed between the City of Brooklyn Center
and Hennepin County to establish procedures for providing back -up public safety
communications for the City of Brooklyn Center in the event of the failure of the
City's Public Safety Answering Point.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the City Council of the City of
Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, that it hereby authorizes and directs its Mayor and
City Manager to enter into and execute on behalf of the City of Brooklyn Center
an agreement to establish procedures for providing back -up communication support
so that the appropriate emergency service agency will provide assistance to the
caller, in the event of a PSAP failure in the City of Brooklyn Center.
August 8, 1983
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ATTEST:
and Rich Theis;
and the following voted against the same: none,
whereupon said resolution was declared duly passed and adopted.
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The motion for thW adoption of the foregoing resolution was duly seconded by
member Celia Scott and upon vote being taken thereon, the
following voted in favor thereof: Dean Nyquist, Celia Scott, Bill Hawes,