ORDER-2020-60 : 911 Training Grant Award - MPD This grant award provides funding for all Melrose Police Dispatch Officer to attend advanced education courses relevant to the handling of 911 Calls for Service.

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▶ 1:49 Christopher Cinella: I was going to do that, yep. Order 2020-60, a 9-11 training grant award for the Meadows Police Department. This grant award provides funding for all Meadows Police dispatch officers to attend advanced education courses relevant to the handling of 9-11 calls for service.

▶ 2:06 John N. Tramontozzi: A motion to suspend the rules to hear from the public official.

▶ 2:11 Christopher Cinella: Second. We have a motion to suspend the rules made by Councilor Tramontozzi, seconded by Councilor Thomas.

▶ 2:17 Speaker 2: All those in favor? Aye. Any opposed? Hearing none, Chief Lyle, if you'd like to. Good evening. Good evening.

▶ 2:30 Speaker 3: This is a reoccurring grant that we've been getting for the past seven years for 9-1-1 training. All dispatchers, or the entire police department essentially, all supervisors and dispatchers, because we have three PSAPs, three positions in dispatch. One is unfilled, so anybody can jump in there in an emergency to fill the void. The training, it's a non-matching grant. It's a little bit different this year, they split the grant. There was EMD, Emergency Medical Dispatch, which is provided by Cataldo Ambulance. I was here last year for this, that portion of the grant. So it does look a little smaller than it did last year. So the $60,000 is a combination of overtime for the officers and fees for the vendors to come in and teach the officers the 16 hours of annual in-service for 911 dispatch.

▶ 3:18 Christopher Cinella: Does anybody have any questions for the Chief while the rules are under suspension?

▶ 3:23 Speaker 2: Councillor Famitose?

▶ 3:25 John N. Tramontozzi: Yeah, thank you. Just to reiterate, Chief, no city matching funds? No match. Great. That's good. All right. This is a great grant for the training of the officers, and we appreciate you getting the grant for the city. But thank you.

▶ 3:45 Speaker 2: Councillor Thomas?

▶ 3:47 Cory Thomas: chief thank you for being here this is for all police personnel you don't have

▶ 4:02 Jen Grigoraitis: any civilian any other questions for the chief just while we have you here talking on this issue can you approximately how many 9-1-1 calls do

▶ 4:13 Speaker 3: you handle in a given year it varies 1400 somewhere around there we do about

▶ 4:21 Speaker 3: 14 000 calls a year 14 000 a year well you know various calls that get logged yep we don't respond to every single call that comes into the police department calls that come into the pd though

▶ 4:31 Christopher Cinella: anybody else uh for the first time

▶ 4:39 Christopher Cinella: make a motion to recommend second we have a motion to recommend by councillor Garipay

▶ 4:44 Speaker 2: seconded by councillor Tramontozzi all those in favor any opposed hearing none this motion will