WHEREAS, the local governments of Tompkins County and our emergency response community have since 1950 worked collaboratively to develop and implement a variety of shared communications systems and technologies that provide our responders with necessary, reliable, and resilient tools to assist in the performance of public safety protection, and
WHEREAS, the County has long provided for the diverse, inclusive involvement and input of the many response disciplines, municipalities, and County departments in developing and administering these shared assets and functions under the auspices of advisory boards, inter-municipal committees, and user groups, and
WHEREAS, the County recognizes the hard work, dedication, and outstanding results contributed to these initiatives and operations through the efforts of the Fire, Disaster, and Emergency Medical Services (EMS) Advisory Board (first organized in 1950), the E911 Task Force (established in 1990), the 911 Operations Committee (1998), the expanded Emergency Communications Review and Oversight Committee (2002), the Law Enforcement Technology Shared Services (LETSS) Group (2008), the Fire and EMS Technology Committee (FEMTech, 2014), and the respective fire, EMS, and law enforcement associations, and
WHEREAS, these efforts resulted in the implementation of Enhanced 911 (1997), wireless 911 (2000), consolidated dispatch operations (2001-2004), an Emergency Communications Center (2004), the Public Safety Communications System (land mobile radio, 2008), shared Traffic and Criminal Software (TraCS, 2009), expansive Computer Aided Dispatch and Records Management Systems (CAD/RMS, 2010), and multiple shared data repositories enhanced through the deployment of mobile data terminals (MDTs, 2010-2016), all of which have produced integrated, state-of-the-art networks, applications, and operations, and
WHEREAS, the establishment of the National Incident Management System (NIMS), as adopted by the Tompkins County Legislature in August 2006 and by all local governments thereafter, has institutionalized and continually reinforced the principles of unified command, incident management, and interoperable communications systems and strategies, and
WHEREAS, the sophistication and continued integration of both legacy and developing communications systems, technologies, and protocols will require even more collaboration, coordination, and participatory governance, and
WHEREAS, the functions of these many boards, committees, and groups have consequently, yet unofficially, converged to leverage the respective assets and infrastructure for use by an increasing pool of responder agencies, and
WHEREAS, evolving Next Generation 911 technologies, advancing data applications and unfolding public safety broadband networks will further require our public safety agencies to synthesize operations and more closely cooperate in the development of operating procedures and protocols, and
WHEREAS, moving forward, the various advisory bodies and users groups have agreed that a reconstituted ECROC, that incorporates, within this broad governance structure, the continued efforts of the various users groups, including LETSS, FEMTech, and the Law Enforcement and Fire and EMS Committees, will best serve the collective needs of the local governments and responders for future shared initiatives and operations, now therefore be it
RESOLVED, on recommendation of the Public Safety Committee, That the Emergency Communications Review and Oversight Committee (ECROC) is hereby reconstituted and renamed as the Emergency Response and Oversight Committee (EROC) and that the EROC Bylaws and Inter-municipal Tompkins County Emergency Response Oversight Committee Agreement be adopted and filed with the Clerk of the Legislature,
RESOLVED, further, That those currently appointed members of ECROC whose memberships remain identified for continued membership on the EROC shall transfer to the new body and that newly designated members will be appointed in conformance with the Policies and Procedures of Tompkins County Government, Policy 01-26,
RESOLVED, further, That Resolution No. 112 of 2009, “Adoption of Inter-municipal Law Enforcement Technology Shared Service (LETSS) Group Agreement and Bylaws - Law Enforcement Technology Shared Service (LETSS),” is hereby rescinded and all functions hereafter transferred to the EROC and its identified committee structures.
SEQR ACTION: TYPE II-20