So, here’s the deal about what I learned, but not from the Dept of Exec. Admin, but SPD’s False Alarm Unit (684-7713). Not a biggie though, it’s really just semantics.
What Broadview Security calls an annual “alarm permit fee”, city of Seattle calls an “Annual Registration Fee”. So, some municipalities offer permit #’s to security companies to track owners of systems, our fair city requires system co.’s to provide a quarterly list of all customers within Seattle, which is kept by Revenue Dept. Also, SPD tracks records of all alarms, false or otherwise, responded to.
TMI? :)