01-14-13 Regular Meeting of La Porte City Council

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Contract No _____________ ARTICLE 7. RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE PARTIES A. The City agrees that HCPID could withhold activation of EVP system components until the EVP system, in whole or in part, passes a detailed Acceptance Test Plan approved by the County Engineer. B. Both parties agree that the EVP CENTRAL SYSTEM will, as a minimum, be capable of producing reports that summarize (1) the System ID for the vehicle requesting preemption, (2) the associated incident ID and incident description sent from theLa Porte Communications Center, and (3) the intersection preemption record compiled by the EVP CENTRAL SYSTEM in a format that is acceptable to theCounty, for each preemption request. C. Both parties agree that the purpose of this report would be to allow monitoring of the EVP NETWORK to insure that requests for EVP are associated with legitimate requests to provide emergency response. D. Both parties agree that the incident related information described above would be compiled in a format acceptable to theCounty for the purpose of evaluating adherence to the proper use of the system. E. Both parties agree that the EVP CENTRAL SYSTEM would identify any vehicle that requests and receives priority treatment but is not associated with an active incident as an exception. F. The City agrees that HCPID will notified of any new vehicles added to the EVP system prior to activation of these vehicles on the EVP system. G. The City agrees that system wide upgrades to embedded firmware or software must be approved/disapproved by theCounty Engineer prior to procurement by the City, in order to insure that integrity between the traffic control systems and EVP systems is maintained. H. The City agrees that system wide upgrades to embedded firmware or software must be approved/disapproved by the County Engineer prior to procurement by the City, in order to insure that the use of the EVP components by other emergency service providers is coordinated. I. The City agrees that no vehicle shall be allowed to access the EVP system until the City submits (for review and approval/disapproval by the County Engineer) a list of vehicles authorized to access the EVP system. Vehicle identification information to be provided for each vehicle shall include: -The serial number of the vehicles in-vehicle EVP mobile unit. -The vehicle type of each vehicle (see List X for approved vehicle types). -The agency vehicle ID for each vehicle. -The VIN# of each vehicle. J. Both parties agree to participate in mediation, led by the Harris County Fire Marshal, in the event disputes or difficulties arise in the implementation of this agreement. K. Both parties agree that the EVP system will use the list of emergency response vehicles to pre-authorize each agency's vehicles and authenticate them at each intersection that is equipped with the EVP system. L. Both parties agree that emergency vehicles not approved by the County Engineer will not be able to access the EVP system. M. The City agrees to coordinate with the Harris County Fire Marshal to evaluate each and every exception on a regular basis, not less than semi-annually, to determine if "exceptions" identified in the system were associated with legitimate requests to provide emergency services. N. The City agrees that the County could request exception reports at any time, but not more than monthly. Page 4 of 6Revised 12/20/2012