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r CITE OF NORTH OLMSTED Mayor Thomas O'Grady Thomas C. Terbrack, Director Department of Public Safety TO: President and All Council Members FROM: Thomas C. Terbrack, Safety Di t CF: Mayor and All Directors Tom Klecan, Fire Chief Wayne Wozniak, Police Chief Nick Pishnery, Westshore Central Dispatch Center Supervisor DATE: December 4, 2006 SUBJ: Central Dispatch Center The North Olmsted Fire Chief and I reviewed the written summary of the Public Safety, Health & Welfare Committee meeting held on November 14, 2006. We also received some a-mail comments from Mr. Nick Pishnery, Supervisor for the Central Dispatch Center (CDC). Stated below are our collective comments on some clarifications and inaccuracies of the written summary from the Committee meeting which are summarized. In the third paragraph a clarification on the response time summary is necessary. Response time, in a general sense, is the time a unit is dispatched until it arrives on scene. NFPA 1710 allows for one minute answering the call, obtaining necessary information and alerting the appropriate unit. It allows another minute for the personnel to respond. The generally recognized definition of response time is the time when an apparatus vehicle leaves a fire station and arrives at the scene of a situation. 2. In the sixth paragraph the statement for how calls are answered for the City of Westlake is not completely accurate. Within the City of Westlake, 911 calls are answered by the Westlake Police Department and then transferred to the CDC. 3. In the seventh paragraph, the written statement "Automatic aid would require a GPS system within each vehicle" can be misinterpreted. Mutual Aid or Automatic Aid is not dependent on GPS technology. The GPS system would only be of value if the unit were not in quarters. As long as the unit is in quarters the question of a GPS is moot. If the unit were on the road and not in quarters, the dispatcher would only have to ask for the location of the unit. The response to a given emergency situation in a geographical location is not determined in a GPS system; it is determined in the Fire Run Cards that