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<br />CEC 10-26-05, TOB 111, 8:30am <br /> <br />GB, SS, RB, TE, CWL, Chief (LFD) Middlemiss, Chief (LPD) Casey, Mark <br />Corr (Capt. Admin, LPD), Deb Brown (AC) <br /> <br />Public Safety Commun. System. Lex. notified 4-6 weeks ago that they <br />were awarded $220+K to replace LFD radios and increase ability to <br />comunicate with other systems. Then will use $'s to replace common <br />equipment (dispatch, PC's). Also got Mass grant for "Voce" alarm <br />system (dispatch area). Use for equip. at LPD dispatch system <br />($30k). Currently have vendors looking at it. 20 year old equip at <br />dispatch area. Voce alarm has been replaced. <br /> <br />GB: Where does radio interoperability end up? <br /> <br />Ch. Middlemiss: New vehicle radios can go VVHF or UHF. New radios <br />allow LFD to go to other frequencies for other municipalities. <br />Command cars can go cross-band. Dispatch will have a cross-banding <br />repeated (for "mega incidents"). Post 9/11 norm is 800 Mhz trunk <br />system on Nextel's freq's. But hurricanes showed this system is bad <br />with VHF radios can still be used w/o repeaters if repeaters go down <br />(line of sight only). <br /> <br />Ch. Middlemiss says they have a disaster plan. <br /> <br />GB: concerned that all jurisdictions can communicate when power fails, <br />etc. <br /> <br />Middlemiss: EOC = Emer. Operations. Ctr. Reviewing 3 sites for them. <br />Portable. Looking at 100W UHF/VHF radios (portable). These would go <br />in EOC and dispatch centers. Q: Should EOC go in new DPW bldg? Or <br />portable, or on pumping station on Bedford St. (has emer. power <br />capability). <br /> <br />Ch. Casey: Both regional FD and PD assocs. have a mobile command unit. <br /> <br />Capt. Corr: Upgrading all systems in FD & PD because of FCC mandates. <br />NEMLEC & BAPERN already have switched over. LPD system is 11 years <br />old and is difficult to repair now. Dispatch center is old and needs <br />to be changed. All systems should be digital, some aren't now. E911 <br />w/ cell phone GPS stuff is changing the landscape. LPD <br />interop. requires changes. Need more space in dispatch center for new <br />911 cell location stuff. Looking at new floor plans to enlarge <br />center. Will use existing space in bldg but change use of floor area. <br />Will re-examine how front desk operates. Overnight there may not be a <br />desk officer. They use a dispatcher instead. They would redesign <br /> <br />