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Minutes of the Regular Meeting of Council Monday, March 16, 2015 Page 14 • First Readiny_ of Resolution No. 2015-05, entitled, "An emergency resolution authorizing the Mayor and President of Council to enter into a Meinoranduin of Understanding with the Cuyahoga Soil and Water Conservation District for providing technical assistance in iinplementing soil and water conservation measures." Introduced by Mayor Rinker and Council as a Whole. Mrs. Mills, seconded by Mr. Jerome, made a motion to adopt Resolution No. 2015-05. Council President Buckholtz asked, does this have anything to do with the Phase II as well, or no? Mr. Cappello replied, yes, it's the same one. Council President Buckholtz asked, any questions? There were none. ROLL CALL: AYES: All NAYS: None Motion Carried Resolution Adopted • First Readinp- of Resolution No. 2015-06, entitled, "A resolution of intent to enter into an agreeinent with Cuyahoga County and Cuyahoga County Einergency Communications Systein (CECOMS) and authorizing the Mayor and President of Council to enter into an agreement with Cuyahoga County for the transfer of responsibility for emergency dispatch from Mayfield Village to the Cuyahoga County Emergency Communications Systein (CECOMS)." Introduced by Mayor Rinker and Council as a Whole. Mrs. Mills, seconded by Mr. Marrie, made a motion to adopt Resolution No. 2015-06. Council President Buckholtz asked, any discussion? Mr. Saponaro replied, yes. Here's the whole point of what we want to do here in terms of Finance and then you guys jump in. We looked at this. We asked the Chiefs to come to us with a recommendation of what they wanted. How it's done, how they looked at everything. They gave us a memo that basically broke down from technology to cost to everything, why it inakes sense to go with CECOMS versus the other ones. Froin a Finance standpoint, this would be a three-year $168,000, which is a huge savings over what we are currently paying with no capital cost involved. So over the three year life of the term, you are talking about $504,000 which is not much inore than what we pay during the course of one year today. The other thing I want to bring up is that because of where we are at coming into this process, the Chiefs will have greater leverage and ability to guide the process, be a part of it and also transfer what they currently do successfully for our residents into the program so that it's done as a model for the program. Maybe not an official model, but they will be training them on how to do certain things. Chief Edelman reported, throughout this discussion, there were two overriding factors that kept coming up that kept drawing us back to CECOMS. One of those as Councilman