NOVEMBER 12, 2002

Agenda Item No. 19

Introduced by the Law & Courts Committee of the:

RESOLUTION OPPOSING SBC AMERITECH'S PROPOSED WIRELESS 9-1-1 TARIFF

RESOLUTION #02-277

WHEREAS Michigan's Counties serve as primary Public Safety Answering Points (PSAP's), and therefore are responsible for providing 9-1-1 emergency dispatching and communication services to Police, Fire, and Emergency Medical Service providers for Michigan's citizens; and

WHEREAS Michigan county governments provide funds for operation, administration, and maintenance of these PSAP's through general funds and restricted fee-for-service revenues; and

WHEREAS SBC Ameritech is proposing a tariff on all wireless 9-1-1 calls received by PSAP's within Michigan; and

WHEREAS the proposed tariff would impose a devastating financial burden on individual PSAP's that are already under severe budgetary constraints due to decreased revenue sharing and ever increasing 9-1-1 expenditures; and

WHEREAS the State of Michigan enacted legislation, Public Acts 78-81 of 1999, which provides cost recovery mechanisms for the delivery of wireless 9-1-1 calls.

THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED the Ingham County Board of Commissioners strongly opposes the proposed SBC Ameritech wireless 9-1-1 tariff.

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that a copy of this resolution be sent to the Michigan Public Service Commission, the Michigan Legislature, Governor John Engler, the Michigan Municipal League, the Michigan Township Association, the Michigan Sheriffs Association, the Michigan Center Directors Association, the Michigan Municipal Risk Management Association, the Michigan Chapter of Association of Public Safety Communications Officials.

LAW & COURTS: Yeas: Krause, De Leon, Dedden, Stid, Grebner, Minter, Schafer

Nays: None Absent: None Approved 10/31/02