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ORDER-2017-96 : Acceptance of the FY 2017 State 911 Department Support and Incentive Grant in the amount of $56,187.00 from the Commonwealth of Mass., Executive Office of Public Safety (EOPS); Fund #2595
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ORDER-2017-96 Grant Acceptance of the FY 2017 State 911 Department Support and Incentive Grant in the amount of $56,187.00 from the Commonwealth of Mass., Executive Office of Public Safety (EOPS); Fund #2595 Recommend Passage Board of Aldermen City of Melrose Page 1 Updated 2/14/2017 11:54 AM
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▶ 13:42 Mary Beth McAteer-Margolis: there chief if you don't mind because the next order is pertinent to you as well order number two zero one seven dash nine six it's the acceptance of the the FY 2017 State 9-1-1 Department Support and Incentive Grant in the amount of $56,187 from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts Executive Office of Public Safety, fund number 2595.
▶ 14:10 Mary Beth McAteer-Margolis: And what— Thank you.
▶ 14:13 Speaker 1: Can you tell us about this? This is the 9-1-1 Support and Incentive Grant. A portion of it, $51,187, goes to salary and wage to offset some of our costs in dispatch. um Thorp 300 for our annual service for the ac unit that handles dispatch which believe it or not runs 365 24 7. even in the winter with the equipment and then we have a playback service for all our phone lines and radio transmissions that's acorn recording for fourteen hundred dollars and something new that we're pretty excited about is data viz it does nine one excuse me 911 alerts so we'll say one of our neighboring communities has an emergency call armed robbery in progress as soon as they put it into their CAD system the computer-aided dispatch system an alert will show up in all our mobile terminals as well as in dispatch so the officers in the field will have an alert that you know one of our excuse me neighboring communities is having a hot call alderman
▶ 15:13 Jennifer L. Lemmerman: lemon thank you madam chair Thank You chief is this this is an annual grant
▶ 15:18 Speaker 1: right we've been fortunate it's the same number 56 one uh 187 for a number of years great so it's
▶ 15:23 Jennifer L. Lemmerman: been level this isn't any increase or decrease either way no it's been it's been stable great
▶ 15:30 Speaker 5: they're all non-matching grants okay thank you very much thank you anyone else from the committee
▶ 15:33 Mary Beth McAteer-Margolis: motion to recommend so alderman Boisselle moves to recommend seconded by alderman inferno all in favor aye opposed that order will also be recommended to the full board for next week and you do not need to return for that vote thank you very much have a good evening that concludes our business for motion to adjourn uh alderman lemon moves to i mean inferno sorry moves to insurance seconded by alderman all in favor aye opposed we are adjourned stay tuned for appropriations thank you
▶ 17:52 Speaker 2: I don't think we'll ever see that again maybe you you're younger you might have a shot
▶ 18:05 Speaker 3: Yeah, actuarially.