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December 3 2017 Board Meeting /  Department Of Emergency Management and 911 Communications 230 Government Center Drive, Suite 115 Wilmington, North Carolina 28403 Telephone (910) 798-6920 Fax (910) 798-6925 sstill@nhcgov.com  Steven Still Director    Memorandum To: Public Safety Communications Center Policy Board Members  From: Steven Still, Director  Subject: December 3, 2017  Date: February 15, 2018   A Public Safety Communications Center Policy Board meeting was held on Thursday December 3, 2017 at 10:00 AM in the Emergency Operation Center, 220 Government Center Drive, Wilmington, North Carolina. MEMBERS PRESENT: MEMBERS ABSENT: Frank Blackley Tim Burgess Steven Still Glen Rogers Matt Davis Tim Corbett Cindy Hewitt John Musacchio Cynthia Deacon Jerry Brewer Guests Jennifer Price, NHC IT Gia Long, NHC IT Debora Cottle, NHC EM & 911 Jennifer Smith, NHC Fire Mike Cavaluzzi, Wireless The meeting was called to order at 10:06 am. Chairman Blackley asked if everyone had a chance to review the minutes from the August 24, 2017 meeting and if there were any questions, comments, changes or corrections. Chairman Blackley asked if there was a motion to approve the minutes. Matt Davis made a motion and Jerry Brewer seconded. All in favor; none opposed. Motion passed. OLD BUSINESS: Locution Chairman Blackley asked if Steven Still had an update on Locution. Steven stated he had to pull information together and meet with other agencies who have Locution. When these are completed and after another meeting they will put all the information together to present to the NC 911 Board to request approval. If it is not approved, the next step is how to fund the system without surcharge funds. They have another meeting schedule to discuss the information obtained so far before it goes before the NC 911 Board for approval. Jennifer Smith stated that Moore County got the NC 911 Board approval for the system. Steven said it might be advantageous if anyone has a contact with Moore County to find any commonalities with their county and ours for our request. Chairman Blackley asked if anyone had questions about Locution. No one had any. Chairman Blackley asked if anyone had any other old business for discussion. No one had any. NEW BUSINESS One Solution Chairman Blackley asked about the One Solution MCT presentation. Jennifer Price said most of the Public Safety Suite is being rewritten by Superion. The county will be going with the new version. Jennifer had a video presentation; can be available upon request. Jennifer informed everyone that training is included for the newest version and that would be coordinated with the agencies; there are (4) hours included. Chairman Blackley asked if there is a schedule. Jennifer stated there was not a timeline yet but IT is hoping that it would be in progress by March 2018 but IT wants the current product stable before they implement the changes. Tomashia Robinson will be the public safety analyst and will be working with Gia Long on this project. Cindy Hewett stated it may even be summer of 2018 when IT starts implementing. The agencies will be added in phases not all in one fell swoop. Chairman Blackley asked if there were any questions about One Solution. No one had any. Motorola/Wireless Chairman Blackley asked Mike Cavaluzzi about the radio pricing. Mike stated that the special pricing that had been in place with the county’s purchases of their radios, expires at the end of 2017. If there is any need, make sure you plan before Christmas so that the pricing is still in effect. Chairman Blackley asked if there were any other items for New Business. Jerry Brewer stated that it wasn’t really New Business but the Jail Facility has always been on the 400Mhz system and to switch everything over to the 800Mhz would not be cost effective. They have been discussing this issue with a vendor and they have some cross banding technology that will utilize a repeater to put them on the 800Mhz system. It is going on an existing talk group. This will hopefully be done by Christmas. Jerry will forward to Lynn to inform the PSCC agencies. This plan saves the county $500,000. Chairman Blackley asked if there were any other items to add. No one had any. OTHER ITEMS AND REPORTS 9-1-1 Center Chairman Blackley asked if Steven Still could update everyone on 911. The backup center will go live in February or March 2018. AT&T is what we are waiting on; there was a snag with the delivery of the equipment. This backup center will be used as a training center when not in use as a backup center. There is a new class of five for the 911 Center and they will be ready for the floor sometime in the next few weeks. We are in the process of reviewing applications for interviews. The Governor did opt in for First Net. This is not a replacement for LMR but there is a meeting around Christmas and will share with everyone at the next Board Meeting. Chairman Blackley asked if anyone had any more questions or items for 911. No one had any. IT Chairman Blackley asked for an update for IT. Cindy Hewett asked Gia about Freedom. Gia Long reminded everyone there was (2) hours remaining for the Freedom training if anyone needs to participate. Dates available will be sent out for anyone interested. Chairman Blackley asked who was the Freedom contact. Gia Long stated that it is Chris Hewett. Chairman Blackley stated he can’t see the units on the map layers. Jennifer Smith said that you have to have AVL on in order to see the units. Cindy Hewett wanted to update everyone on projects IT is updating or working on; RMS application has a couple of modules for law that will be updated. In January there is a project with IT, Chris Hewett and Zak Whicker for WEBEOC application. They are going to rebuild the application to maximize the ease and make it more user friendly. Gia Long will lead this project. Chairman Blackley asked if they would demo the WEBEOC updates or rebuild. Cindy stated that would be great. Cindy asked Gia to update the Board on Optima; Gia said they are getting close. There were a couple of hiccups in the test environment. Today and tomorrow there is training at the hospital. They are hoping to go live at the end of January. Cindy asked if Jennifer could discuss RMS/JMS. Jennifer said they needed an upgrade for the issues from the last upgrade which had a number of bugs. January or February there will be another upgrade to fix these issues for a more stable product. Chairman Blackley asked if there were any other items to be discussed. No one had any. Meeting adjourned at 10:41 a.m.