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Minutes of the Regular Meeting of Council Monday, January 26, 2015 Page 7 Council President Buckholtz thanked the Mayor for the presentation. We are just getting our feet wet with this. The Mayor indicated the powerpoint will be available on the website. There may be other documentation that will be up there as well. We always get breakdowns from the safety forces on calls that have come in. One of the things I would be interested in would be a breakdown of those 11,000 calls; what are fire, what are police, what are immediate emergency calls; what are lesser tier; and what are informational calls or calls passed on to other entities. We will be asking those kinds of questions before we move forward with anything. The reports would serve us better in light of what's coming down the path. Mr. Saponaro stated, I would need to understand on more than a financial level because if it's financial, we could always look at the budget and see where we need to make other changes. I need to understand where we are going to benefit and what we are going to actually gain. This is new. I don't understand it and I need to understand from your perspective where the community is going to benefit. It may be behind the scenes which is fine to help keep our community safer, but we have control right now and we are giving control up to a certain extent. I know it is not black and white. From my perspective in order to start vetting this, I really want to understand the comparison and the cost benefit analysis of what our community is gaining and what you are gaining for your forces. Chief Edelman stated, you are really not relinquishing control. When you call 461-1234, you are calling a dispatch center. Whether it's being dispatched from my building or Kansas, you are still going to get that response right away, so you are not relinquishing any control. What you may be talking about, and correct me if I am wrong, is you may not know that person, they may not know you when you call and that's very important to Mayfield Village. We recognize that. That's why one of the steps we have taken with the various centers we are looking at is we want them to bring in our people that know Mayfield Village, our residents and the community and not just Mayfield Village but the whole SPAN Hillcrest area. We recognize that. We want that to happen. We don't want you to be left out in the cold. It may be non-emergency, you are calling to say my snowplow driver did not show up, can you help me with that. We want to help you with that. We want to still be able to do that even if we are not dispatching out of my building. I don't know if that answers your question or not. Mr. Saponaro stated, I understand. But you talk about the non-economics of it and that's really what I want to understand to really expand on as part of the dialogue. Chief Edelman stated, service to the community will not be diminished. If anything it will increase. We want it to increase. You will not see lesser services. Council President Buckholtz stated, I worked with CECOMs at the County. It's just where all the unified messaging, radios work with each other. I don't want to get into the details tonight. We have way too much stuff to absorb and a long agenda to get through. Mr. Marrie stated, I agree that this shouldn't be and isn't a totally financial one. Most residents like the warm and fuzzy feeling that when they call 461-1234 that they feel that their own is taking care of them instead of someone different. The fear of being the small fish in a big pond is what most people have, that they won't get the same personal treatment. The timeline if