1965-303RESOLUTION NO. 65R -303
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY
OF ANAHEIM APPROVING A COMMUNICATIONS AGREE-
MENT TO BE MADE AND ENTERED INTO BY THE COUNTY
OF ORANGE AND THE CITY OF ANAHEIM FOR THE ES-
TABLISHMENT OF REMOTE DISPATCH FACILITIES IN
AND FOR THE USE OF THE CITY IN THE POLICE RADIO
SERVICE; AND AUTHORIZING THE MAYOR AND CITY
CLERK TO EXECUTE SAID AGREEMENT FOR AND ON
BEHALF OF THE CITY.
WHEREAS, the County of Orange owns, maintains and
operates a communication system for public safety communica-
tions for police, fire and special emergency services; and
WHEREAS, the City of Anaheim desires the County to
establish and maintain remote dispatch facilities in and for
the use of the City for police purposes and is desirous of
having same maintained under a licensed supervising technician
of the County; and
WHEREAS, the County of Orange has offered to estab-
lish and maintain said remote dispatch facilities in and for
the use of the City upon the terms and conditions set forth
in a form of Communications Agreement this day submitted to
the City Council; and
WHEREAS, the City Council finds that the terms and
conditions of said agreement are fair and reasonable and that
said Communications Agreement should be approved, and the Mayor
and City Cleric authorized to execute the same for and on behalf
of the City;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the City Council of
the City of Anaheim that the Communications Agreement this day
submitted to the City Council by the County of Orange, to be
made and entered into by and between the City of Anaheim and
the County of Orange, the terms, covenants and conditions of
which are as hereinafter set forth, be and the same is hereby
approved. That said terms, covenants and conditions are as
follows
1. (a) The County shall install and maintain base
station facilities for said system, and remote dispatch faci-
lities for use by the City for police purposes, including the
necessary antenna or antennas and the necessary structures
therefor, to be operated by a communications connection bet-
ween the City's dispatch station and said County communication
system, under the rules and regulations of the Federal Com-
munications Commission. The County shall also install and
maintain base station facilities for fire radio service, and
special emergency radio service limited to Civil Defense
County -wide communication system and lifeguard service.
(b) All labor costs of installation and main-
tenance of the dispatch facilities shall be borne by the County.
(c) All equipment, material, apparatus and parts
required for use at the antenna site shall be furnished by and
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at the expense of the County, and shall remain the property of
the County.
(d) The County shall also install and maintain
mobile units, radar speed meters, pack sets, surveillance
equipment and other electronic equipment used by the City on
mobile equipment in carrying out the official functions of the
police and fire services, and special emergency radio service
limited to Civil Defense County -wide communications and life-
guard service.
(e) All equipment, material, apparatus and
parts to be required for installation at the dispatch point,
base station and on mobile equipment shall be furnished by and
at the expense of the City. In purchasing equipment, the City
shall conform to the established communications systems and
operations presently in effect. Mobile radio units may be
30 watt output but shall not exceed 50 watt output. Motorcycle
radio units may be 12 watt output and shall not exceed 30 watt
output.
(f) Before the County provides base or mobile
installation service or maintenance, the City shall obtain the
appropriate Federal Communications Commission authorization
to operate all of its transmitting equipment.
(g) All radio equipment for the Public Safety
Services of the City shall be installed, serviced and maintained
by the County; however, nothing in the agreement shall authorize
or be construed as requiring the County to install or maintain
any equipment of any kind in vehicles, buildings, or premises
not owned by or under lease to the City and under the full
time control of the City.
2. The County shall furnish a licensed supervising
technician who shall hold a valid first -class radio telephone
license issued by the Federal Communications Commission, and
said base and mobile equipment furnished pursuant to paragraph
1 (d) above shall be maintained under his supervision.
3. Said remote dispatch facilities shall be in con-
tinuous connection with the dispatching point of the County
Communications Center, whenever the City provides office dispatch-
ing personnel for a minimum of sixteen (16) hours per day, and
the police officers of the City shall be permitted to dispatch
over the air at any time the system is not actually being used
by other authorized agencies.
4. It shall be further agreed and understood that
any local message of important emergency nature shall have pre-
ference over any routine traffic, and the facilities for dis-
patching such emergency messages shall be made available upon
request. In case of a dispute over priority of emergency mes-
sages originating in more than one department, the dispatcher
on duty at the County Communications Center shall be the final
authority in deciding which emergency message shall have
priority.
5. The City's proposed use of said Communications
System shall be only for such purposes and in such manner as
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may be permitted by the Federal Communications Commission.
The dispatcher on duty at the Communications Center shall
monitor all dispatches and shall have the authority to take
said remote dispatch facilities off the air should any rules
or regulations for the management of the County Communications
Center, as adopted by the Board of Supervisors, or any rules
and regulations adopted by the Federal Communications, or any
provisions of the Federal Communications Act of 1934, as amended,
be violated.
6. The City shall agree that so long as the Agree-
ment remains in effect it will not apply to the Federal Com-
munications Commission for a license or individual authority
to operate a base station transmitter in the Police Radio
Service, unless it shall have first given notice of cancella-
tion to the County as provided in paragraph 7 hereof.
7. Said Agreement shall become effective on the first
day of the month next following the date of County execution,
or on such date if it is the first day of the month, and shall
remain in effect thereafter subject to cancellation by either
party upon six (6) months' notice given to the other party in
writing.
8. Said Agreement shall supersede all agreements
heretofore entered into between the County and the City relating
to radio communications and the installation and maintenance
of radio transmission equipment, and upon the execution of the
Agreement, all such prior agreements shall be considered as of
no further force or effect.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Mayor and City Clerk
be, and they are hereby, authorized to enter into said agree-
ment for and on behalf of the City of Anaheim.
THE FOREGOING RESOLUTION is approved and signed by
me this 27th day of April, 1965.
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MAYOR OF THE CITY OANAHEIM
STATE OF CALIFORNIA
COUNTY OF ORANGE
CITY OF ANAHEIM
I, DENE M. WILLIAMS, City Clerk of the City of Anaheim,
do hereby certify that the foregoing Resolution No. 65R -+303
was introduced and adopted at a regular meeting provided by
law, of the City Council of the City of Anaheim, held on the
27th day of April, 1965, by the following vote of the members
thereof:
AYES: COUNCILMEN: Dutton, Pebley, Chandler and Krein
NOES: COUNCILMEN: None
ABSENT: COUNCILMEN: None
TEMPORARILY ABSENT: COUNCILMAN: Schutte
AND I FURTHER CERTIFY that the Mayor of the City of
Anaheim approved and signed said Resolution No. 65R -303 on
the 27th day of April, 1965.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and°
affixed the official seal of the City of Anaheim this 27th
day of April, 1965.
(SEAL)
CIT CLERK OF THE CITY OF ANAHEIM