ORDER-2019-56 : Accept a FY19 State 911 Department Training and EMD Regulatory Compliance Grant in the amount of $92,636.72

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▶ 19:57 Kate Lipper-Garabedian: fortunate it's all I have madam chair thank you all right all in favor any Any opposed? We'll recommend that to the full board. And then our final order of the night is order 2019-56, accept a fiscal year 19 state 911 department training and EMD regulatory compliance grant in the amount of $92,636.72.

▶ 20:18 Peter D. Mortimer: Motion to recommend for passage.

▶ 20:20 Kate Lipper-Garabedian: Second. We have a motion to recommend for passage by Alderman Mortimer, seconded by Vice Chair Boisselle.

▶ 20:26 Speaker 6: Alderman Medeiros. Thank you.

▶ 20:28 Monica C. Medeiros: So how are you again, Chief? you uh we're excited to have a grant at any time especially non-matching um could this is a state 911 training and emd compliance grant can and i see that it says this will be used to defray the cost of annual personnel recertification enhanced 911 training and for the police department and certified emd resource for cataldo ambulance can you just talk a little bit about what that

▶ 20:56 Speaker 4: actually looks like and if so so as far as part one emd is our resource it's catalbo ambulance and that's eighteen thousand dollars out of out of the grant the rest of it is for for training for instructors and overtime for the officers but as far as cataldo so to take so the folks at home understand so when you dial 9-1-1 and the officer answers what's your emergency and you're saying i'm having chest pains we're going to transfer that call to cataldo ambulance and malden at their dispatch center they'll analyze it whether it's an als advanced life support or bls life support in turn they contact marvel's fire the ambulance is dispatched or an als as the ambulance is dispatched that's the process and it goes very quickly and that's what we pay the

▶ 21:43 Monica C. Medeiros: eighteen thousand dollars for excuse me and so cataldo is our backup uh als bls really als ambulance service is that correct so do they are they aware if our als ambulance advanced life support ambulance is already out and on the street and do they immediately dispatch

▶ 22:08 Speaker 4: themselves or just does it that i would think the fire chief would know but i would think that

▶ 22:12 Speaker 5: um to tell the ambulance knows that everything every medical call that's going on within our city they have scanners just like most folks like we do as well and they know exactly what mellows fire is doing in mellows police department is doing um but i further i think uh chief kalina

▶ 22:29 Speaker 3: could probably answer that better than i could and that's um it's for for people to do the training

▶ 22:37 Speaker 5: is they do the call service they're all certified emd resource dispatchers

▶ 22:46 Monica C. Medeiros: and uh will this result in any uh officers being you know so i don't want to say out of the office but of course they're always out of the office but um you know is this training time that we'll need

▶ 22:56 Speaker 5: to fill with uh maybe so the remainder of the grant is each officer each dispatcher

▶ 23:02 Speaker 5: where we have three positions one of them is unfilled anybody can jump in when i mean jump in take another call so we if the phones are ringing an accident they all light up so the supervisor would jump in and answer the 911 call so we train the entire police department it's 16 hours of annual recertification um they're actually doing it this week and i mean did they do

▶ 23:23 Monica C. Medeiros: that during their regular staff time or is this off hours so if it's a day off we it's it's a

▶ 23:29 Speaker 5: schedule uh challenge for lieutenant ma but he does do a good job of it and he schedules them around their schedule so on their days off some may work doubles and you said uh we have one

▶ 23:43 Speaker 3: vacancy in the dispatchers not right now no i thought you said one is unfilled it well it's

▶ 23:48 Speaker 5: always historically it's never been filled since we went to 9-1-1 in the mid-90s and so we it's just a position that it's they say that we need it but it doesn't need to be filled so it's not been filled so currently we have two dispatchers in dispatch and then one when i say unfilled it's another station that can be utilized by anybody in the building if the calls go up okay thank you

▶ 24:15 Michael P. Zwirko: thank you alderman's work out thank you madam chair uh chief the same question is the last grant that i had questioned you on so it seems that we got a little bit more than fiscal year 18 here any reason as to why is it is it increase in service or a thank you for the board in the

▶ 24:26 Speaker 5: city of melrose because the officers got increases in their salaries their supervisors are out for three years and they settled and then their contract expired approximately two months later

▶ 24:35 Michael P. Zwirko: so is it formulaic in terms of this grant yes yeah okay those are the only questions i had thank you

▶ 24:43 Robert A. Boisselle: uh chair vice chair Boisselle uh chief in the enhanced training in the recertification process is that training online or classroom or it's classroom right now um we lost our site in melrose

▶ 24:52 Speaker 4: so we actually uh stone and police department so gracious to allow us to use their training room

▶ 25:01 Robert A. Boisselle: so we're up in stoneham training and is that a day course or a week they're four hour blocks

▶ 25:07 Robert A. Boisselle: so there's four four hour blocks so 16 hours of recertification training yes annually thank you

▶ 25:12 Kate Lipper-Garabedian: thank you we have a recommend a motion to recommend for passage all in favor aye opposed this motion carries and will be recommended to the full board can uh is there a motion to adjourn we have a motion adjourned made by alderman mortimer seconded by vice chair Boisselle all in