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~~1l+tY Os NVi L~ilr~. COUNTY OF HAWAII STATE OF HAWAII 7>f Ci•H~,i~ RESOLUTION NO. ~4~5 Q6 RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING MAYOR TO ENTER INTO AN AGREEMENT WITH THE STATE'S WIRELESS ENHANCED 911 BOARD FOR THE APPROPRIATION AND REIMBURSEMENT OF FUNDS FOR ENHANCED 911 SERVICES FOR WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS WHEREAS, the State Legislature in 2004 enacted Act 159 to amend Chapter 138 of the Hawaii Revised Statutes, Relating to Wireless Enhanced 911 Service For Mobile Phones, for the purpose of enabling appropriate public safety agencies to be provided with a display of a 911 caller's identification and location regardless of the technology used to make and transmit the 911 call when using wireless communications; and WHEREAS, Act 159 of the 2004 Legislature established the Wireless Enhanced 911 Board under the State Department of Accounting and General Services to administer Chapter 138, Hawaii Revised Statutes, as amended; and WHEREAS, the State has mandated that all Public Safety Answering Positions be able to identify and locate cellular calls to the E911 Dispatch Centers; and WHEREAS, the expectation is that all counties, state, and federal E911 locations subscribe to the same software provider as a means to integrate and interoperate across the islands; and WHEREAS, in order to meet this mandate, the County of Hawai'i's Data Systems Department, proposes a system that will utilize Global Position System (GPS) tracking coordinates and ESRI mapping layers to show where the caller is physically located; and WHEREAS, this system will also have the Auto Vehicle Locator (AVL) feature that will allow the Dispatch Centers to track emergency vehicles on a real-time basis; and WHEREAS, the procurement, installation, and implementation of the Wireless Enhanced 911 System will be administered by the Data Systems Department and be used by the County's Fire and Police Departments; and