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Minutes of the Regular Meeting of Council Monday, January 26, 2015 Page 4 those this evening and in the discussion going forward. Our aim is not to compromise service. We can look to our record of how we provided service. A motivating factor is the economic sustainability of providing high quality, high caliber service. Our goal has been to try to keep the Hillcrest and SPAN communities together. We were hopeful that could be our regional model. One of the problems was funding is harder that way. Another problem is that each community has certain constraints that make that type of plan very difficult. For example, Mayfield Heights, Highland Heights and Lyndhurst has jails. Between the operations of those with staffing, equipment, the whole 9 yards, those constraints make certain consolidation moves haxder than others. Our goal had been to keep this local regional collaborative nucleus together. It still remains there, but the question is how extensive can that really be? I don't have the answer for that. We provide the best opportunity for our current dispatch stafF to be rehired. We recognize that the personal contact that residents have with our dispatch is something very important. A lot of our employees in the Village take back a lot from the satisfaction they have in working in a smaller community. The immediate concern is that you are getting into something larger, farther flung, remote and impersonal. It scares people. This is something that will be constant in our discussion - keeping the quality of our services there. The other part is moving at such a time and in such a way that we maximize the opportunity for our dispatch personnel to maintain their employment and have a stronger voice in the implementation of regionalization of dispatch services. We have made it very clear that both from a design standpoint and a job security standpoint we want to have more say than not. Options: Chagrin Valley Dispatch - essentially it is a PSAP. It is currently comprised of a dozen communities. The City of Euclid just joined. It has grown gradually. It is a Council of Governance for operations and capital expenditures. It is more regional, southeast and east side of Cleveland suburbs. SPAN Dispatch - we constructed our police station in 2010 giving ourselves some flexibility and expandability in the space if we needed it. We did not invest in equipment but looked at if the day were to come where we would act as the hub for a dispatching center, we would be able to do it. However, there are issues Lyndhurst, Highland Heights and Mayfield Heights that are different from Mayfield Village that make that consolidation a little difficult CECOMS - the mother of all proposals. A work in progress. We aze looking at the quality, scope and timetable of CECOMS. Roughly 70% of 911 calls are made from cellphones. Today a 911 landline would go directly to Chagrin Val-ley if Mayfield Village were to join Chagrin Valley. The 911 cellular goes to CECOMs regardless and then is routed to Chagrin Valley. The non-emergency calls would go to Chagrin Valley and we would look to creating a non-emergency call back to Mayfield Village. We would be looking at a 24/7 staffing.