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<br />Capital Expenditures Committee Minutes 12-01-04 <br />Town Offices, Room 111, 7:30 p.m. <br /> <br />All members present (Burnell, Edson, Lamb, Rosenberg, Stolz) <br />Chief Chris Casey (Police); Charlie Sargent, Police <br />Operations officer; Chief Bill Middlemiss (Fire) <br />Also attending: David Kanter, Appropriation Committee <br />liaison <br /> <br />Communications equipment <br />Motorola, on state bids list, looking at technology, needs; <br />police estimate for dispatch center infrastructure, radios, <br />repeaters, antenna approx. $200,000 (double that estimate to <br />cover fire) <br /> <br />After 2008, FAA is changing bandwidth, so new system would <br />be compliant with that; would provide police and fire with <br />interoperability (a channel they could use to communicate <br />with each other in emergencies, which lack now); police and <br />fire now on widely different bands, so must relay <br />communications through dispatcher, and Lexington on <br />different bands from other neighbor towns from whom we get <br />mutual aid (Lexington at center of four different fire <br />districts, all on different frequencies!), so need carry <br />multiple radios on trucks to communicate with them <br /> <br />Seeking federal grant for whole system, police and fire; <br />would apply this winter; ahead of the money seeking from <br />Town Meeting more or less to plan the system and dispatch <br />facilities/center $40,000); total project cost likely <br />$400,000-500,000; apply for grant of $250,000-400,000, <br />depending on what Motorola study shows; $40,000 from town <br />would be the required 10% local match <br /> <br />May have space needs to accommodate equipment in dispatch <br />center (three people maximum now) <br /> <br />Question; confer with Dana Ham about school’s plan/request <br />for monitoring and systems? Not now figured into design of <br />what police and fire are working on <br /> <br />Public Safety Report <br />Questions raised about condition of police station, fire HQ <br />and MBTE leak; but police can live with building, fire not <br />worried about MBTE (rather, concerned with mold in crawl <br />space, and possible floor failure under weight of heavier <br />trucks carrying more water; DPW supposed to be evaluating <br /> <br />