A RESOLUTION RATIFYING THE SERVICE AND PURCHASE AGREEMENT WITH KNOWLEDGE COMPUTING CORPORATION FOR THE COPLINK® PROJECT
RECITALS:
For over a year City and County personnel have been working with a consortium of law enforcement agencies from around the State to procure licenses for a State-wide law enforcement information and data sharing system.
In addition to the State-wide capability to share information, the City and the County will benefit by being able to bridge the information gap between the separate records systems used to record and track criminal activity in the incorporated and unincorporated areas of Mesa County. Technological changes have provided a meaningful and cost effective solution to that problem.
Criminal activity often crosses jurisdictional boundaries and law enforcement agencies must increasingly rely on data and information shared from other agencies just as those agencies rely on data and information that we share. Having a network for information sharing among law enforcement, both regionally and statewide, will allow for improved communication and more effective and efficient law enforcement. To further those purposes the consortium has selected the COPLINK software system.
The City and County have signed a service agreement with Knowledge Computing Corporation to implement the information and data sharing system in support of the State initiative. The City Council authorized the expenditure of up to $175,000.00 for such a system. The consortium was able to negotiate a substantially reduced fee for the system licenses. On August 13, 2007 the City Council accepted the Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant to be used for communications projects, including COPLINK.
The execution of the contract and the City’s obligation to proceed under its terms and conditions was subject to the formal ratification, confirmation and consent of the City Council.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF GRAND JUNCTION, COLORADO, THAT:
The City, by and through the City Council and the signature of its President, does hereby ratify the terms, covenants, conditions, duties and obligations to be performed by the City in accordance with the COPLINK contract and allocates funds to pay the Purchase Price and all other costs and expenses necessary to perform under the contract.
PASSED and ADOPTED this 17th day of March, 2008.
/s/: James J. Doody
President of the Council
Attest:
/s/: Stephanie Tuin
City Clerk
