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HomeMy WebLinkAbout2009-02-17 Transcription#2 Page 1 ITEM 2. CONSIDER A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE MAYOR TO SIGN AND THE CITY CLERK TO ATTEST AN AGREEMENT WITH THE JOINT EMERGENCY COMMUNICATION CENTER OF JOHNSON COUNTY AND MIKE SULLIVAN. O'Donnell: Move the resolution. Champion: Second. Bailey: Moved by O'Donnell, seconded by Champion. Discussion? Do you have anything you want to tell us about this? Davidson: LTh, thank you, Madame Mayor, uh, I would be happy to answer any questions. I do also want to thank you all again for coming to special meeting to enable the, if you chose to approve this, to enable to Executive Director for the Joint Emergency Communication Center to begin work on the 23rd. Um, I would be happy to...it was pointed out to me that you did not have the actual agreement, uh, attached to your resolution, so I'd be happy to, very quickly, review that if you'd like. Otherwise just answer questions, but the essence of what we're doing here is the Joint Emergency Communications Center of which, uh, Mayor Bailey is a Member of that board, along with, uh, Mike Wright, representing Iowa City, two of the seven positions on that board. Uh, it's made up of four entities - City of Iowa City, Coralville, North Liberty, and Johnson County. Uh, and it is the oversight board for the Joint Commun...Emergency Communications Center, which will replace the two existing emergency communications center, operated by the Iowa City Police Department and Johnson County Sheriffs office. Um, this is a project that over the last five years has gone from being an idea we thought might be a good idea to a $22.5 million, uh, facility that's under construction right now. Uh, very, very exciting project. Really I think a groundbreaking project for the County, uh, and...and the intergovernmental cooperation has just been remarkable. Um, I've very much enjoyed my tenure as Interim Project Manager, but uh, also think the time is right for that to transition to the Executive Director. Uh, the Joint Emergency Communications Center Board has adopted this agreement, as has, uh, Mike Sullivan, who has been selected to be the Executive Director. The essence of what we're doing here is that because Mike's duties during the first six months will include basically setting the administrative organization up, for that six month period he needs to be part of some administrative organization to generate a paycheck and those sorts of things, and that organization will be the City of Iowa City. After six months, Iowa City basically drops out. Bailey: Any questions? Correia: So, where will the money be coming from to pay his salary and benefits? This represents only a reasonably accurate transcription of the special formal Iowa City City Council meeting of February 17, 2009. #2 Page 2 Davidson: Thank you, Amy, I should have mentioned that. Every month Iowa City will issue an invoice for 100% of the expense of doing this. There will be no, uh, expense to the City of Iowa City. Now, obviously the taxpayers of Iowa City, through the special levy that is funding this, will fund a portion of it, but it will be paid for through this special levy that comes through the County, uh, and there will be no expense to the City of Iowa City. Correia: Uh-huh. And, where will he be housed? Davidson: He has a temporary office at, uh, the, it actually ends up being the new Johnson County SEATS Building, because they had some room there, um, and as soon as the JECC Building, which is under construction, is completed, he'll just move across the street. It's a great location, because in the meantime he can kind of provide some oversight to the construction project. Bailey: Any other questions? Okay. Seeing no further discussion, roll call. Okay, item carries 4-0. This represents only a reasonably accurate transcription of the special formal Iowa City City Council meeting of February 17, 2009.