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FROM: PHIL BATCHELOR
County Administrator
DATE: June 13, 1989
SUBJECT: TERMINATION OF COUNTY'S PARTICIPATION IN THE EAST CONTRA COSTA COUNTY
DISPATCH CENTER (KNOWN AS THE DELTA REGIONAL COMMUNICATIONS CENTER)
Specific Request(s) or Recommendations(s) & Background & Justification
RECOMMENDATION:
Pursuant to Section 3 of the Joint Powers Agreement establishing the East Contra Costa
County Dispatch Center, authorize the County Administrator to give notice to the
non-County participants, consisting of the Cities of Antioch, Brentwood and Pittsburg,
that the participation of Board of Supervisors' governed agencies in the Center,
including the Sheriff-Coroner's Department and the Bethel Island, Byron, East Diablo
(formerly Brentwood), Oakley, and Riverview Fire Districts, will terminate
July 1, 1990.
FINANCIAL IMPACT:
It is expected that if termination is ultimately effectuated, significant efficiencies
and cost savings will result. Any such savings will be delineated in the report
currently being prepared at the direction of your Board by the County Administrator's
Office.
REASONS FOR RFMOE?NIDATION/BACKGROUND:
In 1981, the Board of Supervisors on behalf of the Sheriff-Coroner's Department and
the Fire Districts of Bethel Island, Byron, Brentwood, Oakley and Riverview authorized
County participation in the East Contra Costa County Dispatch Center, commonly known
as the Delta Regional Communications Center (DRCC). The purpose of that agreement was
to establish and maintain a centralized police, fire and emergency medical service
dispatch center in East Contra Costa County. As a result of hearings held before the
Internal Operations Committee in December 1988 on the operations of the DRCC, the
Internal Operations Committee approved a lengthy report. This report was approved by
your Board on December 20, 1988. Among other things, it directed the County
Administrator to prepare a study on DRCC which would include the consideration of
options other than the participation of County governed agencies in that Center.
Since one possible outcome of that study (scheduled for a status report to the
Internal Operations Committee on July 10 and a full report in the fall of 1989) is the
withdrawal of County agencies from the Center, it seems timely to notify the other
agencies at this time of possible County termination effective July 1, 1990. If
notice of such termination is not given until next fiscal year, than the earliest the
County can withdraw is July 1, 1991. If, as a result of the above-cited study, the
Board decides to continue participation in DRCC, the County can rescind the notice of
termination in sufficient time so as not to jeoparz the ope do s of the Center.
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CONTINUED ON ATTACHMENT: X YES Signature:
X Recommendation of County Administrator
Recommendation of Board Committee
X Approve Other
Signature(s)-
Action of Board on: June 20, 1989 Approved as Recommended X Other
Vote of Supervisors: I HEREBY CERTIFY THAT THIS IS A TRUE
AND CORRECT COPY OF AN ACTION TAKEN
X Unanimous (Absent - ) AND ENTERED ON THE MINUTES OF THE
Ayes: Noes: BOARD OF SUPERVISORS ON DATE SHOWN.
Absent: Abstain:
Attested: 2u_c.(i did / 9
cc: See distribution on attachment RXil Batchelor, Clerk of
the Board of Supervisors
and County Acminis/trator
By: fa,0 -aJ, DEPUTY
1. ,�_Teirmination of County Participation
in the East Contra Costa County
Dispatch Center
Page 2, June 13, 1989
Distribution of copies:
Ralph Draudson, Bethel Island
Chief Joseph J. Whitener, Bethel Island
Roberta Fuss, Byron
Chief Nick Papadakos, Byron
Bill Morgan, East Diablo
Chief Paul Hein, East Diablo
Gene Stonebarger, Oakley
Chief Joe Tovar, Oakley
Robert Baldridge, Riverview
Chief Allen Little, Riverview
Donald Russell, Brentwood
Chief James Frank, Brentwood
Leland M. Walton, Antioch
Chief Leonard K. Herendeen, Antioch
S. Anthony Donato, Pittsburg
Chief Lenny Castiglione, Pittsburg
Richard Rainey, Sheriff-Coroner
Capt. John Hart, Communications
Linda Tiller, Regional Medical Services
Supervisor Tom Powers, District 1
Supervisor Nancy Fanden, District 2
Supervisor Robert I. Schroder, District 3
Supervisor Sunne Wright McPeak, District 4
Supervisor Tom Torlakson, District 5
Chief William F. Maxfield, Contra Costa County
Fire Protection District
Claude Van Marter, County Administrator's Office
County Counsel
Bob Guaspari, General Services
Terry McGraw, County Administrator's Office
Glenn A. Marin, Schema Systems, Inc.
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