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RESOLUTION APPROVING
A GRANT OF 911 SURCHARGE FUNDS IN THE AMOUNT OF $1,830,783
FROM THE FY26 BUDGET TO THE TWO DU PAGE COUNTY
PUBLIC SAFETY ANSWERING POINTS TO BE USED CONSISTENT
WITH STATE AND FEDERAL LAW
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WHEREAS, the DuPage County Emergency Telephone System Board (“DU PAGE ETSB”) is an emergency telephone system board, established pursuant to Section 15.4 of the Local Government Emergency Telephone System Act, 50 ILCS 750/15.4 (“Act”) and the DuPage Emergency Telephone System Ordinance (“Ordinance”), DuPage County Code §20-40; and
WHEREAS, the DU PAGE ETSB is authorized and empowered, pursuant to Sections 15.4 (b) of the Act to implement, upgrade, and maintain an Emergency 9-1-1 System for citizens of the County of DuPage and portions of Cook, Kane and Will counties; and
WHEREAS, the ETSB is further charged with the responsibility of providing enhanced 9‐1‐1 emergency services and has designated its two answering points to serve as enhanced 9‐1‐1 public safety answering points for its jurisdiction; and
WHEREAS, the ADDISON CONSOLIDATED DISPATCH CENTER (“ACDC”) is a subdivision of the Village of Addison (“the Village”) and is one of two public safety answering points (“PSAPs”) in the DuPage ETSB 9-1-1 System, that receives and dispatches 9-1-1 calls within the DuPage ETSB geographic area for Police, Fire, and EMS services; and
WHEREAS, DU PAGE PUBLIC SAFETY COMMUNICATIONS (“DU-COMM”) was formed by an intergovernmental agreement and is one of two public safety answering points (“PSAPs”) in the DuPage ETSB 9-1-1 System, that receives and dispatches 9-1-1 calls within the DuPage ETSB geographic area for Police, Fire, and EMS; and
WHEREAS, Illinois statute (50 ILCS 750/20 and 50 ILCS 750/35) provides for the collection of 9-1-1 surcharge funds from landline and wireless telephone customers and the distribution of those monies to local Emergency Telephone Systems Authorities, to be deposited in an Emergency Telephone System Fund Account (“the Fund”) and spent or otherwise disbursed pursuant to Illinois and Federal law and FCC regulation; and
WHEREAS, the State statute (50 ILCS 750/35), the Illinois Administrative Code (title 83 §1329), and FCC regulations (47 C.F.R. § 9.23) consider certain personnel, training, and equipment to be essential to the receipt and dispatch of a 9-1-1 call, such equipment being considered an acceptable or allowable cost pursuant to State statute and FCC regulations, for 9-1-1 surcharge; and
WHEREAS, the DU PAGE ETSB is authorized and empowered by the Ordinance (DuPage County Ord. § 20-40(2)(b)(vii) and (4)(c)(ii)) as the sole authority to authorize expenditures of all moneys collected from 9-1-1 surcharges for deposit into the Fund account; and
WHEREAS, the State statute and FCC regulations consider certain personnel, training, and equipment expenditures, among others, to be essential to the receipt and dispatch of a 9-1-1 call, such equipment being considered allowable cost pursuant to State statute and FCC regulations, for 9-1-1 surcharge; and
WHEREAS the Constitution and laws of the State of Illinois permit units of local government to enter into intergovernmental agreements in such a manner as is not restricted by law or ordinance; and
WHEREAS, pursuant to an Intergovernmental Agreement (the “Agreement”) approved and executed on November 20, 2023, under Resolution ETS-R-0056-23, attached as Exhibit 1, grants from the ETSB to the PSAPs shall be allocated 35% to ACDC and 65% to DU-COMM, and the ETSB will grant ACDC and DU-COMM $1,000,000.00 as budgeted in the FY26 budget, to be allocated pursuant to the Agreement; and
WHEREAS, pursuant to Policy 911-010: Expenditure Policy, the ETS Board approved an additional $830,783.00 of the $1,614,314.27 NG911 Withholding FY25 Distribution for allocation to the PSAPs in FY26, with the remaining $783,531.27 used toward meeting the ETSB FY25 revenue projection; and
WHEREAS, the total FY26 allocation of $1,830,783.00 shall consist of $640,774.05 to the Village of Addison for ACDC, including $350,000.00 pursuant to the Agreement and $290,774.05 from the NG911 Withholding Distribution, and $1,190,008.95 to DU-COMM, including $650,000.00 pursuant to the Agreement and $540,008.95 from the NG911 Withholding Distribution, to be used by the PSAPs in a manner authorized by Illinois and Federal law and FCC regulations to pay allowable expenses incurred by the PSAPs in receiving 9-1-1 calls and dispatching appropriate public safety personnel; and
NOW, THEREFORE BE RESOLVED, the ETS Board authorizes the disbursement of $1,830,783.00 from the DU PAGE ETSB FY26 budget consisting of $640,774.05 to the Village of Addison for ACDC and $1,190,008.95 to DU-COMM.
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Enacted and approved this 14th day of October, 2026 at Wheaton, Illinois.
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GREG SCHWARZE, CHAIR
Attest: ___________________________________
JEAN KACZMAREK, COUNTY CLERK