LEGISLATIVE ACTION ITEM
SPONSOR: Grover C. Robinson, IV, Mayor
SUBJECT:
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PUBLIC SAFETY ANSWERING POINT EMERGENCY COMMUNICATION INTERLOCAL AGREEMENT
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RECOMMENDATION:
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That City Council approve the Public Safety Answering Point Emergency Communication Interlocal Agreement between the Sheriff of Escambia County and the City of Pensacola Police and Fire Departments. Further, that City Council authorize the Mayor to execute all documents relating to the interlocal agreement.
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HEARING REQUIRED: No Hearing Required
SUMMARY:
Florida Statute Chapter 163, among other powers, permits public agencies to enter into interlocal agreements within each other to exercise jointly any power, privilege, or authority which such agencies share in common and which each might exercise separately.
Florida Statute Section 365.179 (Direct radio communication between 9-1-1 public safety answering points and first responders), requires local first responder agencies to ensure that each PSAP (Public Safety Answering Point) within a county is capable of directly notifying any first responder agency within that county of an emergency by radio.
This section also requires each sheriff, in collaboration with all first responder agency heads in his or her county, to facilitate the development and execution of written interlocal agreements between all primary first responder agencies within the county to establish the protocols by which a PSAP will directly provide notice of an emergency by radio to the on-duty personnel of a first responder agency for which the PSAP does not provide primary dispatch functions.
The Escambia County Sheriff, in conjunction with the Escambia County Emergency Services Communications Center, operates the PSAP for calls within the jurisdictional boundaries of Escambia County and landline 9-1-1 calls outside the City of Pensacola.
The City of Pensacola Police Department operates a PSAP, which takes all landline 9-1-1 calls within the City of Pensacola.
This interlocal meets the requirement under State Statute and brings the City into compliance.
PRIOR ACTION:
None
FUNDING:
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FINANCIAL IMPACT:
None
CITY ATTORNEY REVIEW: Yes
1/31/2020
STAFF CONTACT:
Keith Wilkins, City Administrator
ATTACHMENTS:
1) Public Safety Answering Point Emergency Communication Interlocal Agreement
PRESENTATION: No end