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