ORDER-2015-49 : Acceptance of EMD Grant from the Commonwealth of Mass., Executive Office of Public Safety and Security, State 911 Department; Fund #4006

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▶ 1:42 John N. Tramontozzi: motion to close public participation all right seeing no uh members of the public wishing to come forward this evening we have a motion to close the floor for public participation by alderman inferna second and by alderman mortimer on the motion all in favor aye any opposed public participation is now over at this time we will proceed to the orders on the agenda our first order of business is order 2015-49 acceptance of emd grant from the commonwealth of massachusetts executive office of public safety and security state 9-1-1 department fund number four zero zero six we have a motion to suspend the rules second alderman medeiros uh moves to suspend the rules so we can hear from the appropriate uh personnel as seconded by alderman inferno on the motion all in favor aye any opposed seeing none um we have uh some members of the uh the city administration who wish to come forward to speak uh about this order uh please come forward i see chief lyles

▶ 2:45 Speaker 1: here chief good evening it's been a while this grant here is something that we have had the

▶ 2:55 Speaker 1: fortunate duties of the past several years to been applied for it and accepted under part of this grant, we're required to provide an EMD resource, emergency medical dispatch resource. Our current vendor is Cataldo Ambulance. Their fee is $18,000 a year. For a little insight, when a medical call comes in 911 to the police department, it is transferred to Cataldo Ambulance where they tier the call, the level of service, And then it's transferred back to the fire department for deployment of EMS. That's part one. The other part of the grant, 60,930.69, is for training. Every year our officers and supervisors are required to do an annual recertification, 16 hours. The 60,000 odd dollars covers the fees for instructors to come to Melrose and teach our officers and supervisors their 16 hour course. This is a non-matching grant.

▶ 3:53 John N. Tramontozzi: Great. Thank you for that introduction, Chief. Is there any, we'll entertain any questions from the board. Any members of the board wish to ask any questions, Chief?

▶ 4:04 John N. Tramontozzi: Make a motion to recommend? Second. Good, we have a motion by Alderman Forbes to recommend, seconded by Alderman Mortimer. Any further discussion? Seeing none on the motion, all in favor? Aye. Any opposed? Great. Chief, thank you. This order will be moved to the full board meeting for, where it will be recommended for passage. Thank you. Thanks, Chief. Thank you. The second order this evening is order number 2015-50. It's an appropriation in the amount of $702,653.95 from available free cash to various accounts as set forth herein.