Subpart 1.
General.
Recurring costs of providing minimum 911 telephone service
shall be paid by the state, as described herein, consistent with available
funding, provided an approved final plan is on file with the Department of
Public Safety and a certificate of plan approval has been issued.
Subp. 2.
Costs to be paid by
state.
The following recurring costs shall be paid by the
state:
A. The recurring costs
associated with trunks and dial access trunk equipment necessary to provide the
minimum grade of service as defined in part
7580.0500, subpart
1. Additionally, in those
exchange areas where the minimum grade of service can be achieved with only one
trunk due to extremely low population density, a second trunk, or a backup
means of completing the 911 call if the first trunk is busy or inoperative, is
eligible for state payment.
B. The
recurring equipment and trunking costs associated with providing selective
routing service to connected PSAPs from all telephone exchange central offices
that are already connected to those PSAPs, or for all telephone exchange
central offices that, without selective routing, would generate at least five
redirected 911 calls per day.
Subp.
3.
Formula for estimating number of redirected calls.
Should the number of redirected 911 calls be impossible to
define by measurement, the following formula shall be used:
| A x B x C |
|
|
| _____ |
= |
Number of redirected calls per day |
| 1000 |
|
|
"A" equals the population living in that part of a telephone
exchange geographic area not normally served by communications personnel at the
public safety answering point. This figure can be determined by using census
tract data or other appropriate means.
"B" equals the number of 911 telephone calls per 1,000
population per day in the geographic area of the telephone exchange. If that
number is not available, the following method shall be used for estimating that
number:
A. Three for all cities of the
first class (as defined in Minnesota Statutes, section
410.01), or if
the telephone exchange is located within ten air miles of the corporate
boundaries of a city of the first class.
B. Two for an exchange located within a city
containing a population of 25,000 or more, but not a city within ten air miles
of a city of the first class; for an exchange located within five air miles of
the corporate boundaries of a city with a population of 25,000 or greater, or
for those exchanges located more than ten but less than 15 air miles from the
corporate boundaries of a city of the first class. Determination of population
shall be based upon the most current estimates of the state demographer. If
such estimates are not available, population shall be based upon the latest
federal or special census.
C. One
for exchanges in those areas of the state not falling within the above
classification.
"C" equals the ratio of the number of 911 calls that will
require redirection to the total number of 911 calls originating from that part
of the telephone exchange geographic area not normally served by communications
personnel at the PSAP.
Subp.
4.
Request for further state payment.
A county may petition the Department of Public Safety for state
payment of selective routing costs for those exchanges which do not qualify for
funding under subpart
2, item B. Such petition will
be considered as an application for variance and shall comply with the
provisions contained in part
7580.0700, subpart
1. The Department of Public
Safety shall evaluate such a request pursuant to the provisions of part
7580.0700, subparts
3 and
4, and shall grant a variance
upon a clear showing by the petitioner of the following factors:
A. extraordinary circumstances affecting the
provisions of emergency services such as the following:
(1) land use characteristics including, but
not limited to residential, commercial, and industrial uses, the assessed
valuation of the area, and reasonable population projections for a five-year
period;
(2) population
characteristics including, but not limited to, population densities by discrete
period of time per day and by season of the year;
(3) public safety factors causing unique or
unusual problems including, but not limited to, natural and transportation
barriers to effective service, the legal service boundaries of public safety
agencies; and facilities or sites with unusual or potential high-risk public
safety hazards;
B. the
Department of Public Safety's assumption of such payments results in a clear
and significant improvement in public safety.
Subp. 5.
ANI information.
In any telephone exchange having the technological capacity for
generating ANI information, the cost of transmitting such information from the
originating exchange to the primary PSAP shall be eligible for state
payment.
