AN ORDINANCE RATIFYING AN INTERGOVERNMENTAL AGREEMENT EXPANDING THE MEMBERSHIP OF THE YAMHILL COMMUNICATIONS AGENCY AND SPECIFYING MEMBER'S RIGHTS AND OBLIGATIONS UPON DISSOLUTION, AND DECLARING AN EMERGENCY.

WHEREAS, the Yamhill City Council, sat for the transaction of city business, in formal session, on May 26, 1999.; and

WHEREAS, the council makes the following findings:

• The City of Yamhill is a member of the original Yamhill Communications Agency ("YCOM"), an intergovernmental entity created under ORS Chapter 190. YCOM members have agreed that additional agencies should become part of YCOM, and that the intergovernmental agreement should otherwise be amended to specify a member's rights and obligations on dissolution of YCOM. Since YCOM's creation, ORS Chapter 190 has been amended by the addition of ORS 190.085 in 1991. ORS 190.085 provides as follows:

"190.085(1) Prior to the effective date of an intergovernmental agreement creating an intergovernmental entity, each of the parties to the intergovernmental agreement shall enact an ordinance ratifying the creation of the intergovernmental entity. An ordinance enacted under this subsection shall:

• Declare that it is the intent of the governing body enacting the ordinance to create an intergovernmental entity by intergovernmental agreement;



• Specify the effective date of the intergovernmental agreement;



• Set forth the public purposes for which the intergovernmental entity is created; and



• Describe the powers, duties and functions of the intergovernmental entity."



• Subsection (2) of ORS 190,085 requires certain items related to the intergovernmental agreement ratified under ORS 190.085(1) to be filed with the secretary of State within 30 days of the creation of the intergovernmental entity. These items include the intergovernmental agreement, the ordinance ratifying the intergovernmental agreement, and a statement containing the name of the intergovernmental entity created, the parties to the agreement, the purpose of the agreement, and the effective date of the agreement.



• This ordinance is intended to ratify the YCOM agreement attached as Exhibit "A" to this ordinance as required by ORS 190.085. ; NOW THEREFORE;
  

THE CITY OF YAMHILL ORDAINS AS FOLLOWS:

SECTION 1. Purpose. The purpose of this ordinance is to comply with ORS 190.085, 1997 replacement part.

SECTION 2. Intent. It is the intent of the Council as governing body of the City of Yamhill to modify the membership and organizational structure of the Yamhill Communications Agency ("YCOM") as originally created by intergovernmental agreement dated January 1, 1988, and July 1, 1991. To do so, the Council hereby adopts the YCOM agreement dated July 1, 1999, attached and incorporated into this ordinance as Exhibit "A".

SECTION 3. Effective date of new YCOM Agreement. The new YCOM agreement attached as Exhibit "A" shall become effective on July 1, 1999.

SECTION 4. Public Purpose. The public purpose of YCOM is to provide public safety emergency communications.

SECTION 5. Powers, duties and functions of YCOM. In providing public safety communications, YCOM provides dispatching, relaying or transferring of calls made in the named jurisdictions and other jurisdictions in an emergency, and maintains agency owned equipment and telephone lines connected to the 9-1-1 center. Subject to limitations contained in local, state or federal law and in the YCOM agreement attached as Exhibit "A", YCOM shall have all powers, duties and functions necessary to achieve the public purpose of providing public safety emergency communications.

SECTION 6. Emergency. This Ordinance being necessary for the immediate preservation of the public peace, health and safety of the City of Yamhill, Oregon, an emergency is hereby declared to exist and this Ordinance shall be in full force and effect immediately upon passage.

INTRODUCED AND ADOPTED by the City of Yamhill Council and signed by me in authentication of its passage this 26th day of May , 1999.