AGENDA CAPTION:
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Consider approval of Resolution 2024-136R, approving an Amended and Restated Interlocal Cooperation Agreement regarding the Austin Regional Intelligence Center (ARIC) and the Interlocal Cooperation Agreement for sustainment funding for ARIC that enables the Police Department and other regional law enforcement agencies to share information; authorizing the City Manager, or her designee, to execute the agreement on behalf of the city; and declaring an effective date.
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Meeting date: August 5, 2024
Department: Police Department
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Background Information:
The San Marcos Police Department is one of the original member agencies of ARIC. As a member agency of ARIC, the San Marcos Police Department is able to share and utilize crime information at the regional level which improves the ability of the organization to detect and deter criminal behavior in San Marcos.
On May 2, 2024, the Austin City Council unanimously approved this amended and restated interlocal agreement that governs the operations and funding of ARIC. Interim Assistant City Manager Bruce Mills then signed a copy of the agreement. Subsequently, the Travis County Judge signed the agreement as well. The highlights of this amended and restated agreement are as follows:
• Previously, the ARIC had two separate agreements (original and sustainment), and this amended and restated combines the two. This provides greater efficiency, as there is now only one agreement.
• This agreement creates a more efficient and streamlined process of adding new partner agencies, where the Executive Board must unanimously approve a new partner agency, and subsequently Austin City Council and the governing body of the new partner agency must approve of the agreement. This differs from the previous interlocal agreements for the ARIC, where every partner agency needed to have its governing body’s approval and signature prior to a new partner agency joining. That process took upwards of two years to add one partner agency. With this new streamlined change, the ARIC will now be able to add partner agencies and provide them with necessary support without the long waiting period.
• New partner agencies will sign a separate agreement with the ARIC, but the agreement will be substantially similar to (including the Privacy Policy terms) this amended and restated agreement.
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