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CITY COUNCIL AGENDA ITEM BRIEFING SHEET <br />Submittal Date: <br />11/16/2011 <br />Originating Department: <br />Presented By: <br />Agenda Item No.: <br />Council Date: <br />12/12/2011 <br />Police <br />Chief Hundley <br />18. <br />RECOMMENDED MOTION: <br />Direction to Staff <br />POLICY ISSUE(S): <br />Changing Alert Notification Systems for the city of Paris <br />BACKGROUND: PAGE ONE <br />In April of 2008, the City of Paris entered into an agreement with the Emergency Communications <br />Network to provide emergency message capability through their product of CodeRED. The system <br />was a telephone call notification system which could be utilized by the city to send out emergency <br />messages, informational messages along with automatic severe weather notifications when our <br />area was threatened. This system came highly recommended along with a cost; $15,000.00 for <br />50,000 minutes of telephone time along with $7500.00 for the automatic severe weather <br />notification. The $7500 was waived for the first year contract. <br />The system worked well and provided the city with an excellent manner of pushing information to <br />our citizens. The automatic severe weather notification gave a peace of mind to our citizens by <br />getting phone calls when severe weather became a threat to the city. This system could call all of <br />our local phone numbers in a matter of minutes. <br />The only issue with CodeRED was the high cost and the lack of text messaging or e-mail capability. <br />Being concerned with the cost of CodeRED, we looked and became aware of other less expensive <br />notification systems. WENS (Wireless Emergency Network) was considered due to a lower cost <br />and favorable reviews from references. <br />The cost of only $11,000 for 50,000 calls and no cost for severe weather notification along with <br />free e-mail and text messaging was the deciding factor to move to the WENS platform <br />EXHIBITS: <br />ACTION: <br />BUDGET INFO: <br />❑ Financial Report ❑ Minute Order <br />Expense <br />❑ Department Report ❑ Resolution <br />❑ P <br />i <br />Budgeted Amt. <br />resentat <br />on E] Ordinance <br />❑ P <br />H <br />bli <br />i <br />❑ O <br />h <br />yTD Actual <br />u <br />c <br />ear <br />ng <br />t <br />er <br />Acct. Name <br />Acct. Number <br />FISCAL NOTES: <br />REVIEWED AND APPROVED BY: <br />Z Administtation Z City Clerk ❑ Community Development ❑ EMS/IT ❑ Finance ❑ Fire <br />❑ Municipal Court ❑ Legal ❑ Libtary Z Police ❑ Eng./Public Works ❑ Utilities <br />City of Paris <br />Revised 2/04/08 <br />106 <br />