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RESOLUTION NO. CITY RESOLUTION TO JOIN THE DAKOTA COUNTY 800 MHz PUBLIC SAFETY RADIO SUBSYSTEM WHEREAS, Minn. Stat. 473.904 required that metropolitan counties prepare a communications system planning document on current and potential participation in the regional 800 MHz public safety radio communications system; and WHEREAS, the County and its cities currently operate independent VHF public safety radio systems not capable of interoperable communications; and WHEREAS, Dakota County in cooperation with the cities in the County studied this issue and issued reports in 1997 and 2000 concluding that the current independent VHF public safety radio systems were meeting the current needs of the agencies and that the County did no intend to participate in the regional 800 MHz system at that time; and WHEREAS, the terrorist events of September 11, 2001 have shown the necessity for an interoperable public safety radio system; and WHEREAS, the County and its cities again studied participation in the regional 800 MHz public safety radio system and in a report issued in 2004 unanimously recommended that the county participate in the regional 800 MHz public safety radio system; and WHEREAS, in 2004 the Dakota County Board of Commissioners authorized the County to join the Metropolitan Regional 800 MHz public safety radio system; and WHEREAS, significant federal grant funds have been made available through the US Department of Homeland Security to implement interoperable radio communications systems; and WHEREAS, Dakota County has received approximately $6 million in grant funds to construct a Dakota County 800 MHz public safety radio subsystem; and WHEREAS, Dakota County has retained a consulting firm to design the County integrated 800 MHz subsystem to serve all areas of the County; and WHEREAS, the design of the County subsystem is being overseen by technical and policy committees made up of county and city participants; and