FY2025 State 911 S&I Grant

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▶ 43:47 Maya Jamaleddine: Seeing none. All in favor? Aye. Any opposed? Okay. This motion also carries, uh, last one for the police department is, uh, ID number 12, uh, 21 7 FY 2025. State 9 1 1 s and I grant. And

▶ 44:08 Speaker 8: That's what you Yes. This one also non-matching. Uh, 9 1 1 Supportment Center. Grant, what this does, it's awarded to PSAPs, which provide 9 1 1 services to offset the cost of personnel. Uh, 9 1 1 Environmental control and dispatch equipment inside our 9 1 1 center, uh, to help purchase, maintain, or upgrade of any cad, which is computer rated dispatch. Uh, hardware, software updates or fixes to the radio consoles, as well as any type of our internal recording systems that we use to maintain and monitor our 9 1 1 recordings. Uh, we have a broken down here is, um, the majority of it's gonna go back to pal pay for the salaries of the offices that, uh, work inside. And we have that down as $78,828 and 18 cents. And we have $11,676 and 82 cents. Set aside to upgrade, uh, some cruiser laptops to connect to 9 1 1. And cad dispatch

▶ 45:07 Maya Jamaleddine: Counselor. Ro

▶ 45:09 Speaker 7: I just wanted to ask you, are you personally seeking these, um, grants?

▶ 45:12 Speaker 8: Um, my, uh, Kim Upton helps me a lot. She, she does all the grant writing. Uh, but it's pretty standard across the industry for Okay. Any, any agency to do this? Okay. Yep.

▶ 45:21 Speaker 7: Well just wanna say it. Sure. We, we appreciate it.

▶ 45:24 Speaker 8: I'll, I'll take the credit for it. I really can't.

▶ 45:27 Speaker 7: I just wanna make a motion to

▶ 45:29 Maya Jamaleddine: Recommend. Is it, is it the first year we, uh, we do these grants or we've done it before?

▶ 45:34 Speaker 8: It, it's probably been done every day. I know this is the second time I've been in front of this body, but it, it, it historically should have been done. I'm pretty sure it has.

▶ 45:43 Maya Jamaleddine: Great. Thank you. Um, uh, counselor William? Uh, I'm sorry. Councilor Seaward.

▶ 45:47 Robb Stewart: Thank you. Mad chair. Uh, thank you Chief Fowler. Um, the one thing I noticed on all these is, um, the, the contract start dates are interviews, right? So this one is November 8th, and the other ones were like November 5th. No issues with that, right? I'm sorry. There are no issues with the fact that it's, the contract is supposedly

▶ 46:05 Speaker 8: Correct and we, we haven't done, uh, sought any reimbursements until final approval from the city. So the contract was approved by the state and the contract is effective, I believe, November. Is that correct? Right. Uh, but we haven't done any action on it until we go through this process.

▶ 46:20 Robb Stewart: Okay. But we won't lose anything, right? Oh,

▶ 46:22 Speaker 8: No, we'll be able To. Okay,

▶ 46:24 Speaker 12: We will. Thank you, chief. Thank you Madam Chair.

▶ 46:29 Speaker 6: Um, councilor Kati, Motion to recommend. Second,

▶ 46:31 Maya Jamaleddine: We have a motion to recommend made by counselor, uh, Kati, seconded by President Michael on discussion. Well,

▶ 46:42 Manjula Karamcheti: Just a point of order, I believe prior to Councilor Stewart's question counselor, uh, counselor Frio actually made a motion. So I don't know. You keep each other straight or what?

▶ 46:54 Speaker 6: What's that? No, just so just, I'm not sure if it should actually go to Councilor Frio instead of me. That's all. I said it quickly,

▶ 47:02 Speaker 5: so don't worry about Thats okay. That's

▶ 47:03 Maya Jamaleddine: Okay. So we have a motion to recommend made by Councilor Karam Shetti, seconded by, uh, president MLO Lee on discussion.

▶ 47:13 Maya Jamaleddine: Seeing none. Uh, all in favor? Aye. Any opposed? Okay. This motion carries. Uh, thank you for being with us tonight and, um, I hope you have a great Thanksgiving.