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Minutes of the Special Meeting of Council <br />Monday, January 4, 2016 <br />Page 2 Mrs. Eisenberg replied, it's exactly the same. My wireless is considered a cellphone. I think we need <br />to work on this. That could be dangerous. It could impair someone's health. Let's see if you can't <br />work on attaching it to the towers we have. Would that be possible? <br />Chief Edelman replied, not directly. Chief Carcioppolo has more information on this than I do. This is <br />one of the things we looked at when we were considering joining CECOMS. I know some of the other <br />dispatch centers are taying to do that as well. Chagrin Valley was trying to do that. <br />Chief Carcioppolo stated, because of the PSAP (Public Safety Answering Point) and the abundance of <br />those in the State of Ohio, it was defined in the law that they wanted to consolidate dispatch centers or <br />PSAPs into a smaller amount because we had approximately 320 of them comparatively like the State <br />next to us that had more. Right now the only entity in our area that had that ability was CECOMs. <br />CECOMs relinquished some of that control to the City of Cleveland so the City of Cleveland can <br />handle their call volume. That was directly related to the quantity of calls and the ability to handle that. <br />I don't believe the technology is available. Your phone does something called geocoding. It <br />triangulates your position and then it routes it to the closest PSAP center, but I don't tlunk that the <br />technology is at the level where we can actually do it here yet. That might come in the next three years, <br />but that was part of our rationale and reasoning for trying to promote the consolidation because of that <br />difference in time. <br />Mrs. Eisenberg stated, no disrespect, but then I think we need to tell the people that live here in the <br />Village exactly what it is and how they have to do that. <br />Chief Carcioppolo stated, I will tell you that the enhanced 911 that has been put into our dispatch <br />center last March, if you call 911 from your cellphone, it will show your position on a map in Mayfield <br />Village to the dispatcher at CECOMs. That will automatically ping directly to our computer here when <br />they transfer the call so they lrnow now exactly where you are. <br />Council President Saponaro asked, is that regardless of the age of the wireless device? <br />Chief Carcioppolo replied, that could be a problem depending on how old the technology is. It will <br />give them a larger triangulation. It might be within 1000 meters whereas the newer phone or higher <br />technology phone would be within 50 feet. <br />Mrs. Eisenberg stated, if you were in the pazk, you might have a problem. Or if you are on Mayfield <br />Road, it could be Cleveland Heights, it could be South Euclid, it could be Lyndhurst, it could be <br />Mayfield Heights, it could be Gates Mills, it could go all the way out to Chesterland. That person has <br />to be able to say, I am in Mayfield Heights. It's a problem. <br />Mr. Diemert stated, Mazge, if you have a wireless phone as opposed to a cellphone, a lot of people <br />have these wireless phones that Motorola and AT&T makes. They are wireless but they go through a <br />landline in your house. Those do go directly to 911. <br />Mrs. Eisenberg replied, that's not mine.