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INTERIM INTERIM Vegemast Engineering, Inc. to update the original plan, and to provide detailed design specifications for those jurisdictions within the Metropolitan Area that did not opt to participate in the first phase. Under the provision allowing the Board to assist local units of government, the Board is underwriting the cost of these design plans. 3. Operational Context: The original law creating the Board and the region -wide system required that each county must complete a planning process on whether and how it would participate in the regional system. The plan and any updates or amendments to the plan will serve as the basis for participation. 4. Protocol/ Standard: 1. Local units of government within the metropolitan area are eligible for aid if a. The governing body of the local unit approves, by resolution, a request for participation in the regional system or requests assistance for constructing capital facilities that the Board determines may be used at some firture time as part of the regional system or a local subsystem of the regional system. b. Funding for the local entity's share of the costs is identified. c. A technical plan for implantation is consistent with the plan developed and approved by the county within which the entity is located and is approved by the governing body of the county. 2. Local units of government are eligible for up to a thirty percent reimbursement from the capital bond fund of the Board for the following classes of expenditures and follow the process and procedure outlined in paragraph 5 of this set of standards. Reimbursable capital costs are generally limited to the following: material and personnel costs- involved in civil design and construction at sites, such as site preparation, shelters, towers, roads, easements, and associated elements, including warranties; project management, design, construction and installation of microwave antennas and microwave radio equipment including training and warranties; project management, computer .software, engineering, design and • installation of equipment racks; radio, computer, and other associated equipment permanently mounted or housed in racks and/or in shelters, including training and warranties; antennas and cables; fixed or mobile network monitoring equipment; personnel and material costs of installation of equipment at the dispatch center or control center for the subsystem commonly known as the central electronics bank, equipment designed to facilitate in- building coverage, and associated civil construction at the control center. Not eligible are the costs of portable or mobile radio sets for use on the system nor are the costs of dispatch consoles, except upgrades or purchases that are required to interface with the new 300 MHz system. 3. In- building coverage, or any other enhancements, will not be eligible for matching funds for any entity that is a subscriber of a county subsystem unless it is an independent PSAP and recognized and approved as such in the couurty plan. The Board will consider funding in- building 6.4 Aid &s Grants to Local Units of Govt. 2 Section r