WAC 118-66-020
Purpose and priorities. (1) RCW 38.52.540 authorizes the establishment of an enhanced 9-1-1
account in the state treasury and specifies that the funds
shall be used only
(a) To support the statewide coordination and management
of the enhanced 9-1-1 system,
(b) For the implementation of wireless enhanced 9-1-1
statewide, and
(c) To help supplement, within available funds, the
operational costs of the system, including:
(i) Adequate funding of counties to enable implementation
of wireless enhanced 9-1-1 service, and
(ii) Reimbursement of radio communications service
companies for costs incurred in providing wireless enhanced 9-1-1 service pursuant to negotiated contracts between
counties or their agents and the radio communications service
companies.
(2) RCW 38.52.545 provides that the rules defining the
purposes for which available enhanced 9-1-1 funds may be
expended shall consider the base needs of individual counties
for specific assistance, and establishes the following
expenditure priorities for such funds:
(a) To assure that 9-1-1 dialing is operational
statewide;
(b) To assist counties as necessary to assure they can
achieve a basic service level for 9-1-1 operations; and
(c) To assist counties as practicable to acquire items of
a capital nature appropriate to increasing 9-1-1
effectiveness.
(3) The state enhanced 9-1-1 coordinator, with the advice
and assistance of the enhanced 9-1-1 advisory committee, is
authorized to enter into statewide agreements to improve the
efficiency of enhanced 9-1-1 services for all counties and to
specify by rule the operational purposes for which funds, if
available, may be expended from the enhanced 9-1-1 account.
(4) The purpose of these rules is to define the criteria
and priority for enhanced 9-1-1 fundable items and
requirements for eligible entities to receive enhanced 9-1-1
assistance from the state enhanced 9-1-1 account.
[Statutory Authority: RCW 38.52.540. 03-10-014, §
118-66-020, filed 4/25/03, effective 7/1/03.]