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Finance Committee recommends intermunicipal PSAP backup agreement with Waukesha County
Summary
The committee recommended approval of an intermunicipal agreement making Waukesha County the city’s backup public safety answering point (PSAP) with no charge for the first 48 hours of colocation, formalizing a previously informal arrangement.
The Muskego City Finance Committee recommended approval May 13 of an intermunicipal agreement with Waukesha County to formalize a backup public safety answering point (PSAP) arrangement.
City staff said Muskego previously relied informally on neighboring dispatch centers but had not formalized a backup agreement after New Berlin moved to county consolidation. Barb, a city emergency-management staff member, told the committee the agreement includes a provision that Waukesha County will not charge for the first 48 hours of colocation in an emergency.
City officials described the agreement as a preparedness step to ensure continuity if Muskego’s internal dispatch were disabled by events such as a fire at the dispatch center, a cut fiber line, or other system outage. Staff referenced a Milwaukee County incident in which county dispatch operations were relocated to Waukesha County during a fire.
There is no additional cost associated with the agreement as written, staff said. Committee members voted to recommend approval of the intermunicipal agreement to the full council.
