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Minutes of the Regular Meeting of Council Monday, January 26, 2015 Page 3 Organizational Council Meetinp- - January 12, 2015 Mrs. Mills, seconded by Mr. Marrie, inade a motion to approve the minutes as written. ROLL CALL: AYES: All Motion Carried NAYS: None Minutes Approved COMMENTS FROM MAYOR RINKER - Presentation by Mayor Rinker, Chief Edelman and Chief Carcioppolo regarding proposed regional dispatch. The powerpoint presentation is attached to these Minutes. The following is a summary of the presentation. Mayor Rinker stated, the focus is not to advise you of a decision that has been made as m`uch as to bring everyone up to speed as best we can with discussion that has been ongoing in a variety of ways across the County predominantly with our safety forces, our fire and police departments. It has been evolving and picked up pace more rapidly. Our 5 full-time and 3 part-time dispatchers cover both police and fire calls for emergency and non-emergency calls. It also includes Gates Mills for fire and EMS services. We are anticipating just over $500,000 for operational purposes. Dispatch equipment and MARCS radios for police will need to be upgraded. We are a SPAN (Suburban Police Anti-Crime Network) Community. - Generally speaking SPAN is a sharing. It's not so much a mutual aid in the strict sense of that phrase. We share resources and information. It has worked very well as a collaborative effort between our neighboring communities for a few decades. It's an important inter-relationship. Starting several years ago with the move toward County government and as we have seen changes in Columbus and our tax base, a lot of other communities are affected far more adversely than we are, but we are not immune. Generally speaking, municipalities in Cuyahoga County have been looking at ways they can consolidate resources in a way that works. By 2013, Cuyahoga County funded a feasibility study with the understanding that there was a consensus between police and fire that some form of consolidation was now in order. The big question is how best to do it. That's still a work in progress. Cuyahoga County Emergency Communications (CECOMS) objectives - to create anywhere from 4 to 5 consolidated dispatch centers called Public Safety Answering Points (PSAPs) with the goal to have the first call center in Broadview Heights by May 2016. From our standpoint, our objective has been to provide equal or improved level of service. There's no doubt in my mind that this Council will certainly be looking very carefully at how the quality of services are delivered. The onus will be placed on both of our Chiefs to address