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TO: Mayor Thomas J. Weisner
FROM: Alayne M. Weingartz, Corporation Counsel
Care Anne Ergo, Chief Management Officer
DATE: December 11, 2015
SUBJECT:
Resolution Authorizing the City of Aurora to enter into a Memorandum of Understanding ("MOU") with the City of Naperville for the Future Creation of a Joint Emergency Telephone System Board ("ETSB").
PURPOSE:
Aurora is currently pursuing legislation that would allow Aurora to disconnect from its current ETSB and form a joint ETSB with Naperville. This MOU, which is also being considered by the Naperville City Council, memorializes both cities' commitments to enter into discussions on the formation of a Joint ETSB should the legislation pass.
BACKGROUND:
Aurora operates its own Public Safety Answering Point (PSAP) system, which receives emergency 911 calls and dispatches more than 100,000 calls annually for police, fire, and ambulance services. In 1989, Kane County voters approved the creation of the Kane County Emergency Telephone System Board (ETSB) in order to provide oversight to the Aurora's dispatch center, as well as two other dispatch centers: Kane Comm and Tri-Com Central Dispatch.
Dispatch centers are funded, in part, through the imposition of monthly surcharges on local landline and wireless phone services. According to State Law, the ETSB receives and manages these funds. The nine-member Kane County ETSB is appointed by the Kane County Chairman. The City of Aurora has one representative on the board.
This past summer the State of Illinois approved SB 96, which overhauled the law as it pertains to funding and provision of 911 services in the State of Illinois. The new law would require the number of PSAPs in the Kane County ETSB to drop from 3 to 2 in order to achieve its consolidation goals.
DISCUSSION:
Over the years, the City of Aurora has partnered with the City of Naperville to save money through cooperative purchase agreements, including the purchase of the...
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