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BOOK STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF LEE 22 Face 993 INTERLOCAL CONTRACT FOR 911 THIS CONTRACT, made and entered into this day of i. 2009, by and between the City of Sanford, N.C. (hereinafter referred to as ty"), a North Carolina municipal corporation and the County of Lee (hereinafter referred to as "County"), a body both corporate and politic and one of the one hundred counties of the State of North Carolina, WHEREAS, a monthly 911 service charge is imposed on each active voice communications service connection that is capable of accessing the 911 system; and the service charges is payable by the subscriber to the voice communications service provider and must be remitted by the provider to the State's 911 Board; and WHEREAS, the City of Sanford Police Department is designated as the primary Public Safety Answering Point (PSAP), the first point of reception of a 911 call, and under the current legislation, the State's 911 Board must make monthly distributions to the primary PSAP's from the amount allocated to the 911 Fund for PSAP's; and WHEREAS, since the inception of 911 charges, the City has been the PSAP and the County has collected the 911 funds and distributed the money to the City to pay the eligible expenses of the PSAP, and has reported the funds to the State Treasurer and audited the funds; and WHEREAS, the State 911 Board has insisted that the City and County produce a contract before they will release the 911 funds. WITNESSETH: For the purposes and subject to the terms and conditions herein set forth, the City wishes for the County to continue to collect 911 surcharge funds on behalf of the city's PSAP and disburse the funds to the City for the eligible expenses of the PSAP; and to report those amounts to the state treasurer and audit those funds; and the County wishes for the City to be the primary public safety answering point for public safety response to 911 calls and the County is willing to receive 91 1 surcharge funds from the State 911 Board, on behalf of the City's PSAP; NOW, THEREFORE, FOR AND IN CONSIDERATION of the promises contained herein and other good and valuable consideration; the receipt and sufficiency of which are hereby acknowledged, the parties hereto agree as follows: L Eligibility for 911 Funding. As the Primary Public Safety Answering Point (PSAP) the City is eligible to receive monthly disbursements of 911 funds from the State 911 Board.