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CITY COUNCIL AGENDA ITEM BRIEFING SHEET Submittal Date: Originating Department: Presented By: Agenda Item No.: 08/07/2008 Council Date: MIS Kent Klinkerman 24 08/ 11 /2008 RECOMMENDED MOTION: Not an action item. POLICY ISSUE(S): Project update BACKGROUND: In early 2007 Council approved the expenditure of funds to implement a Computer Aided Dispatch (CAD) for emergency services and a records management system (RMS) for the Police Department. Additional components included an RMS (Firehouse) for the Fire Department, a mobile data system (MDS) for emergency services, and an automatic vehicle location (AVL) feature. Of these CAD, RMS, and Firehouse are operational. MDS was to be a City owned, proprietary 900 MHz system utilizing GE access points (AP) and mobile data radios. APs were to be located so as to provide coverage for almost all of the City of Paris. Additionally, the grid would be ava.ilable to be utilized by other departments projects such as the supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) system for the Water Production Deparnnent, lift sta.tion monitoring and automatic or wireless read meters (AMR). Data radios were to be located in emergency vehicles to connect them to the CAD servers and feed their GPS coordinates to the CAD system. All AP and data radios were installed in the fall of 2007. Since that time every effort to make the GE mobile system work has failed. Multiple Network, RF and design engineers from GE, Comtex, Twin Eagles and other firms have been involved in multiple attempts to configure, refine, troubleshoot, engineer a solution to the inability of the Mobile Data system to work the way it was promised. The CAD team has spent hundreds of hours facilitating these efforts by the various companies. GE cannot make it work. Therefore, we have exercised our option in the contract to ask for a refund. Data radios were to be located in emergency vehicles to connect them to the CAD servers and feed their GPS coordinates to the CAD system. All AP and data radios were installed in the fall of 2007. Since that time every effort to make the GE mobile system work has fa.iled. Multiple Network, RF and design engineers from GE, Comtex, Twin Eagles and other firms have been involved in multiple attempts to configure, refine, troubleshoot, engineer a solution to the inability of the Mobile Data system to work the way it was promised. The CAD team has spent hundreds of hours facilitating these efforts by the various companies. GE cannot make it work. Therefore, we have exercised our option in the contract to ask for a refund. City of Paris . 000265 Revised 2/04/08