80.29 - BOARD DUTIES.
80.29 BOARD DUTIES.
The statewide interoperable communications system board
established in section 80.28 shall:
1. Implement and maintain organizational and operational elements
of the board, including staffing and program activity.
2. Review and monitor communications interoperability performance
and service levels on behalf of agencies.
3. Establish, monitor, and maintain appropriate policies and
protocols to ensure that interoperable communications systems
function properly.
4. Allocate and oversee state appropriations or other funding
received for interoperable communications.
5. Identify sources for ongoing, sustainable, longer-term funding
for communications interoperability projects, including available and
future assets that will leverage resources and provide incentives for
communications interoperability participation, and develop and obtain
adequate funding in accordance with a communications interoperability
sustainability plan.
6. Develop and evaluate potential legislative solutions to
address the funding and resource challenges of implementing statewide
communications interoperability initiatives.
7. Develop a statewide integrated public safety communications
interoperability system that allows for shared communications systems
and costs, takes into account infrastructure needs and requirements,
improves reliability, and addresses liability concerns of the shared
network.
8. Investigate data and video interoperability systems.
9. Expand, maintain, and fund consistent, periodic training
programs for current communications systems and for the statewide
integrated public safety communications interoperability system as it
is implemented.
10. Expand, maintain, and fund stakeholder education, public
education, and public official education programs to demonstrate the
value of short-term communications interoperability solutions, and to
emphasize the importance of developing and funding long-term
solutions, including implementation of the statewide integrated
public safety communications interoperability system.
11. Identify, promote, and provide incentives for appropriate
collaborations and partnerships among government entities, agencies,
businesses, organizations, and associations, both public and private,
relating to communications interoperability.
12. Provide incentives to support maintenance and expansion of
regional efforts to promote implementation of the statewide
integrated public safety communications interoperability system.
13. In performing its duties, consult with representatives of
private businesses, organizations, and associations on technical
matters relating to data, video, and communications interoperability;
technological developments in private industry; and potential
collaboration and partnership opportunities.
14. Submit a report by January 1, annually, to the members of the
general assembly regarding communications interoperability efforts,
activities, and effectiveness at the local and regional level, and
shall include a status report regarding the development of a
statewide integrated public safety communications interoperability
system, and funding requirements relating thereto. Section History: Recent Form
2007 Acts, ch 90, §2
Referred to in § 80.28