Lake County Gazette

Lake County Law & Judicial Committee met Feb. 7.

Here is the agenda provided by the committee:

1. Call to Order

2. Pledge of Allegiance

3. Roll Call of Members

4. Addenda to the Agenda

5. Public Comment (Items not on the agenda)

6. Chair's Remarks

7. Unfinished Business

7.1 23-0174

Joint resolution authorizing a five-year contract with Axon, Scottsdale, Arizona, for the purchase of tasers for the Lake County Sheriff’s Office in the total amount of $552,369.20.

∙ The X26 tasers used by court and corrections officers will no longer be supported by Axon beginning March 2023. Axon has proposed a complete switch out of non-supported equipment and hosted digital media evidence for 150 tasers for five years.

∙ The X27 tasers included in this proposal are covered under a five-year warranty and includes instructor training, rechargeable batteries, duty and training cartridges, docking stations, and auto-download data similarly to the body-worn cameras.

∙ The Sheriff’s Office has separate contracts with Axon for body-worn cameras for the law enforcement division, corrections division, and for 150 in car cameras.

These contracts all use Evidence.com and each user has a unique log-in. With this purchase, the Sheriff’s Office will have one platform and service provider going forward for body-worn cameras, T27 tasers, and in-car camera solutions.

∙ Pursuant to Section 33.115 of the Lake County Purchasing Ordinance, Cooperative Joint Purchasing Authorized, Lake County may participate in a cooperative purchasing agreement for the procurement of goods with one or more public procurement units in accordance with an agreement entered into between the participants.

∙ The Lake County Sheriff’s Office identified a joint purchasing contract with Axon through Sourcewell to procure tasers and the cloud-based solution, evidence.com that was competitively solicited and awarded. The final agreement is currently in final legal review and expected to be executed by February 28, 2023. The final award and order of equipment is contingent on receipt of a fully executed contract.

∙ The contract provides for new Axon tasers and hosting maintenance for the cloud enabled software in the estimated annual amount of $100,729.46 for the two through five of the contract will increase in price by 3.8 percent per year.

8. New Business

REGULAR AGENDA

*9-1-1 CONSORTIUM*

8.1 23-0201

Joint resolution approving Intergovernmental Agreements (IGAs) for the collaborative use of the Lake County ETSB CAD and Mobile Systems among Fox Lake, Gurnee, Lakemoor, Libertyville, Mundelein, Round Lake Beach, Round Lake, Round Lake Park, Vernon Hills, Waukegan, Winthrop Harbor, Zion, Lake County, and the Lake County ETSB.

∙ As part of the Regional 9-1-1 Consolidation Project, a Consortium of 21 public safety entities agreed to seek a county-wide, enterprise public safety software suite for dispatch, records, jail management, and reporting.

∙ The Lake County ETSB through the County, contracted with Tyler Technologies to license and support Computer Aided Dispatch (CAD) and Mobile systems. The CAD is a law and fire incident processing system that enables entry and tracking of emergency calls for service by a PSAP and Mobile software to provide incident data to first responders.

∙ The LCETSB-Tyler contract includes a site license “for the licensed CAD and Mobile software for any agency in the geographic confines of Lake County.” This Agreement relates only to the CAD and Mobile components of the LCETSB-Tyler contract.

∙ The municipalities of Fox Lake, Gurnee, Lakemoor, Libertyville, Mundelein, Round Lake Beach, Round Lake, Round Lake Park, Vernon Hills, Waukegan, Winthrop Harbor and Zion are located within the geographic confines of Lake County, seek to join the LCETSB in using the CAD and Mobile, and are willing to pay their proportionate cost for the maintenance of the system under the terms set forth below.

∙ The Lake County State’s Attorney’s Office has reviewed the IGAs.

9. County Administrator's Report

10. Executive Session

11. Members' Remarks

12. Adjournment

Next Meeting: February 28, 2023