Consider acknowledgement or acceptance and record into the minutes the revised Amendment Two to Interlocal Cooperation Agreement for Austin Regional Intelligence Center (ARIC) and for sustainment funding agreement with ARIC under authority of Williamson County Sheriff's Office to update information for current administration.   

The Austin Regional Intelligence Center (ARIC) is a collaborative effort of public safety agencies in surrounding counties to work together to provide resources, expertise and information to the Center. ARIC focuses on regional public safety data analysis. The mission of ARIC is to maximize the ability to detect, prevent, apprehend, and respond to criminal and terrorist activity. Williamson County Sheriff's Office has been an original partner since 2010. During the fall of 2012 each of the original partner agencies governing bodies approved a second interlocal cooperation agreement that established funding mechanism to sustain the operation of ARIC known as the ARIC Sustainment Funding Agreement. The two purposes of this Amendment Two are to add the New Partner Agencies to the ARIC Sustainment Funding Agreement and to authorize the City of Austin to enter  into separate collateral agreements with non-governmental entities, as necessary, to provide these non-governmental entities with obligations and benefits equivalent to Partner Agencies. The annual operating costs shall be shared based on the participation levels of each Partner Agency and the number of sworn personnel in each agency that will use the services provided by this agreement. In the past our cost has been previously paid from the County Sheriff Asset Forfeiture Fund and now this funding has been approved to be paid from the Sheriff's General Fund (0100-0560-004100) budget beginning this fiscal year. Our responsibility is $26,325.00.  This agreement allows for free training of our deputies which we have taken advantage of.