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02 25 2010 Board Meeting W Memo To From Subject Date A Public 25, 2009 Wilmingt MEMBE Sterling P Andre’ M Warren L Patricia F Michael Leslie St Donna Sm Sharon B Frank Bl Guests Debora C Wayne P Mary Sm Andrew C Carrie LaWarren Lee Director orandum o: Public S m: Warren L t: February e: February Safety Com 9 at 10:00 A ton, North C ERS PRESE Powell Mallette Lee Fields Core anfield mith Braxton ackley Cottle, NHC earce, NHC mith, Wilmin Curd, Motor aBasco, Mot afety Comm Lee, Directo y 25, 2010 B y 26, 2010 mmunication AM in the Carolina. ENT: EM & 9-1-1 EM & 9-1-gton Police rola torola N EMERG23 munications C or Board Summ ns Center Po Emergency 1 Dept NEW HAN GENCY M 30 Governm Wilmin Phone Fax: E-mail: w Center Polic mary licy Board m Operation C ME Haro Jerry Den Will Jon Cyn Dori Kurt Jan K Hop Mik JasoNOVER C MANAGE ment Center D ngton, NC 2 : (910) 798-(910) 798-6 wlee@nhcgo cy Board Me meeting was Center, 220 MBERS AB old Heglar y Brewer nnis Cooper liam Youngi Rorie nthia Deacon ian Flowers t Bartley Kavanaugh, pe Little, NH ke Cavaluzzi on Adams, WCOUNTY EMENT & Dr, Suite 185 28403 -6920 6925 ov.com embers s held on Th 0 Governme BSENT: ner n, NHC IT HC IT i, Motorola Wireless Y&9-1-1 5 hursday, Feb nt Center Dbruary Drive, Chairman Powell called the meeting to order at 10:07 a.m. He asked if everyone had a chance to review the minutes from January 28, 2010 and if there were any questions, comments, changes or corrections. No one had any. Chairman Powell asked if there was a motion to approve the minutes. Frank Blackley made a motion and Andre’ Mallette seconded. All agreed. Motion passed. OLD BUSINESS: 800 MHz Rebanding Update Chairman Powell asked if Warren would update everyone on rebanding. Warren said they are working on the Centers radios and then to Cape Fear Public Utilities; the first touch is almost complete. Jason said they are waiting on first touch for VIPER before they start the second touch. They are still waiting on a couple of VIPER ID’s. Chairman Powell asked how long that would take and Warren said that it may take a couple of years. This is a lengthy process. He had attended the last Commissioners Meeting and there has been a budget amendment approved for over $1,000,000 approved for the Sheriff’s Dept, Fire Dept and Animal Control; all of them combined will get more than 300 radios. The budget amendment will go on the March 2, 2010 County Commissioners Meeting. Leslie asked what departments in the county have not been able to migrate. Warren said this would complete the county. Warren said there was an issue of County Fire not being able to talk to the Airport Public Safety Officers. When the last template was made, the Airport was not included; but when they need to they can be patched so that they can communicate. There was also an issue of Ogden New Hanover Rescue couldn’t talk to EMS unless they were on Primary. The reason is they bought 2500 radios early on & they didn’t have the P25. They are analog and the only ones they can talk to are the ones that are patched at the consoles which EMS Primary is one of the patched channels. They will have to ask to be patched if they need anything other than Primary. Jason said the talk groups can be added. Chairman Powell asked if Airport PSO’s were represented in the Integrated Dispatch group that has been meeting. Wayne said they weren’t; they had to have TAC channels assigned when needed the same as everyone else. Warren said that the University was in the process of getting VIPER Id’s because of the push from the State. There have been several big events on other campus’ that make this an issue for them to resolve. Jason said that he was going to add a talk group for the airport as well as the two emergency departments. He would check to see if there was a hard patch available to initiate the talk groups. Chairman Powell asked if something could be soft patched that already had a hard patch. Jason said no, you could not add a soft patch to a hard patched channel. Chairman Powell said that was something we had to keep in mind when migrating; when a hard patch is not needed that it be removed and free up some that may be needed elsewhere. Jason said that he would look into the existing hard patches and see if some of them can be removed if they have gone digital. NEW BUSINESS Chairman Powell asked if anyone had anything for new business. No one had anything. OTHER ITEMS AND REPORTS Integrated Fire Dispatch Chairman Powell asked if Wayne would update everyone. The last meeting was cut short due to snow. They will have another meeting next month. Emergency Management & 9-1-1 Chairman Powell asked Warren to update everyone on PSCC concerns. Warren stated that everyone should have gotten their reports by email and if there were any questions. No one had any. IT Leslie said there was nothing to new to report. Although Hope Little is now going to cross train with Jan to assist with the PSCC items so that IT will have multiple people to assist with any issues in the Center. Jan said that City Fire has decided to add about 20 units on AVL. This should not have an impact on CAD although they data packet will increase slightly. They will keep an eye on this as all 20 will be on at the same time. Leslie said that if it does impact CAD it may expedite what has to be done with the server. We pay an enormous amount of money for AVL and if it is only able to support one agency, we are not getting our money’s worth. The vendor knew how many units we were potentially going to have in service when we went into this arrangement. Verizon is now testing the lat/long on the cards; which could potentially cut down on our costs and we would get reliable information. Warren said the schools had asked about GPS for the buses and Leslie said that could be asked of OSSI; ask about usage for non-emergency vehicles. Warren said one of the questions that he was asked was if the radios had GPS which they don’t; this is an add on. Leslie said it also has to work with the equipment in the center. Leslie asked if there was any interest in having a presentation on GPS. Chairman Powell said that the interest was more towards the schools and what they were looking into and they are not represented on this Board. Warren said that he was interested in a presentation from OSSI if there was going to be any effect of service to CAD with an increase of units with AVL. Mike said there is a partnership with Marvelous who has a partnership with OSSI and they could have someone come to speak about the mapping aspect which would be beneficial. Leslie said an invitation could be sent and anyone interested from the Board could attend. Chairman Powell asked if anyone had anything else. No one had anything else. Chairman Powell adjourned at 10:37 a.m.