File #: 24-707   
Status: Agenda Ready
File created: 5/13/2024 In control: Clark County Board of Commissioners
On agenda: 5/21/2024 Final action:
Title: Approve, adopt and authorize the Chair to sign the Ordinance authorizing a Lease-Purchase Obligation for payment by Clark County, as fiscal administrator for, and with the funding of, the Southern Nevada Area Communications Council Fund (2520); as if an emergency exists. (For possible action)
Attachments: 1. Staff Report, 2. SNACC Lease-Purchase Obligation Ordinance 2024, 3. Exhibit D - Form of the Lease Purchase Agreement

CLARK COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS

AGENDA ITEM

 

Petitioner:

Anna Danchik, Comptroller

Recommendation: 

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Approve, adopt and authorize the Chair to sign the Ordinance authorizing a Lease-Purchase Obligation for payment by Clark County, as fiscal administrator for, and with the funding of, the Southern Nevada Area Communications Council Fund (2520); as if an emergency exists.  (For possible action)

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FISCAL IMPACT:

Fund #:

2520.000

Fund Name:

So. NV Area Comm. Council

Fund Center:

1100768001

Funded PGM/Grant:

N/A

Amount:

Not to exceed $6,986,812.65

Description:

SNACC Capital

Additional Comments:

The lease-purchase obligation is not to be repaid in whole or in part by the levy of any tax or mandatory assessment, but through the annual member per radio fee collected by SNACC, which any member may avoid by withdrawal from SNACC membership in accordance with the terms of the Cooperative Agreement.

 

BACKGROUND: 

The Southern Nevada Area Communications Council (SNACC) is a separate legal entity originally established pursuant to NRS Chapter 277 in 1995 by Cooperative Agreement between Clark County and the Las Vegas Valley Water District, and with amendments thereafter adding additional parties and members, resulting in the current SNACC Cooperative Agreement, approved by Clark County on June 18, 2013.  SNACC provides interoperable radio communications between public agencies via a radio backbone system with transmitters and repeaters delivering an 800-megahertz radio service utilized by the Clark County Fire Department and the Department of Aviation as well as 50 other agencies and departments.

The SNACC Board intends to enter into a Schedule A Amendment #25456 to the Equipment Lease-Purchase Agreement #23636 dated December 1, 2014, by and between the SNACC, as the Lessee and Motorola Solutions, Inc., as the Lessor for the lease-purchase of equipment for the hardware, software, and services for upgrading the SNACC radio communications network, resulting in a lease-purchase obligation not to exceed $6,986,812.65.  The lease-purchase obligation is to be repaid within 10 years from legally available funds of SNACC administered by Clark County in the estimated annual repayment amount of $875,287.63.

On April 2, 2024, the Board of County Commissioners conducted a public hearing and adopted a resolution authorizing the lease-purchase obligation.  On May 2, 2024, the Nevada Department of Taxation approved the lease-purchase obligation.  The Ordinance authorizes the lease-purchase obligation in the maximum principal amount of $6,986,812.65; providing the form, terms and provisions of the obligation, the security therefor, and other details in connection therewith.

This action requires five affirmative votes for approval.