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Authorizing the Emergency Management Department to enter into an Amended Joint Powers Agreement with Ramsey County for the continued utilization of the Computer Aided Dispatch and Mobile Data Agreement.
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WHEREAS, the City of Saint Paul (“City”) and Ramsey County (“County”), collectively the “Parties” entered into an Agreement (“Agreement”) to utilize the Computer Aided Dispatching (“CAD”) System that is used by the Emergency Communications Center (“ECC”) executed by the Parties in February 2014 (the “original JPA”); and
WHEREAS, the Agreement expires December 31, 2026, and Ramsey County has requested a two-year extension so that essential services may continue while it modernizes the Joint Powers Agreement for Dispatch Services and related agreements; and
WHEREAS, Amendment 1 on the Agreement revises Section 12.1.2 of the Agreement to read, “[t]hereafter, the Term shall automatically renew for one (1) year periods (“Renewal Periods”), up to a maximum of ten (10) twelve (12) Renewal Periods” extending the term of the Agreement through December 31, 2028; now, therefore, be it
RESOLVED, by the Saint Paul City Council, that the appropriate City officials are hereby authorized to execute an Amended Joint Powers Agreement in substantially the form as attached.