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Minutes of the Regular Meeting of Council <br />Monday, March 16, 2015 - <br />Page 16 <br />Mr. Jerome replied, yes. <br />Chief Carcioppolo stated, the State came out with the Ohio Revised Code provision that <br />decided that in the year 2018 if you were not one of five PSAPs in a County - <br />Mr. Saponaro asked, a PSAP is? <br />Chief Carcioppolo replied, Public Safety Answering Point. You would not be receiving <br />911 wireless money which comes froin a tax on your cellular phone bill. With that being <br />said, under the Fitzgerald Administration, they came out with a plan to reduce the PSAPs <br />in Cuyahoga County from approxiinately 50 to 5 over a period of tiine, with CECOMS <br />being one of the inain ones because they were the only one answering cellular calls at the <br />time. They took money to divvy up to these local smaller areas to make consolidated <br />centers into. Yes, what you are talking about is true in that if you are not in one of the <br />recognized five centers, then you would not be entitled to receive that inoney toward your <br />dispatch center. <br />Mr. Jerome asked, so right now, Chagrin Valley does receive the money? <br />Mr. Saponaro replied, no. <br />Mr. Jeroine asked, they don't because they are their own Council of Government? <br />Chief Carcioppolo replied, they were given money from the County to start their dispatch <br />center, but they were also told when they were given that money that they would most <br />likely not be recognized as one of the final five. It was an effort to get these local <br />communities to start to combine. I believe we discussed this at the Safety and Service <br />meeting originally. The State Department of Administrative Services conducted a <br />feasibility study and analyzed the amount of PSAPs in Ohio comparatively to <br />Pennsylvania. Ohio had 320 PSAPs and Pennsylvania only had 151. Of the 320, as I stated <br />earlier, 50 of those were in Cuyahoga County. We have a lot of redundancy built in the <br />State of Ohio in that area. That's where the Ohio Revised Code language came from. <br />Council President Buckholtz asked, in terms of the resolution, what does this do to the <br />timeline or actualization of migrating from a dispatch center here to a dispatch center <br />somewhere else? Is this the move or is this just a COG in the process? <br />Chief Edelman replied, this is just the first step in the process. What we are asking Council <br />for tonight is to approve the resolution of intent to allow us to negotiate with Cuyahoga <br />County for the final contract for them to dispatch for us. As far as a changeover, we are <br />looking at November 1 St. That may sound like it's far down the road, but it's not. After <br />discussions with the County, they requested four months to hire, four months to train, just <br />to get people on board ready to start. To do it any sooner than that would not have been <br />feasible. We just want to make sure everything's done properly.