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Calendar Details:
Wednesday, December 27 - Friday, December 29
No Meetings Scheduled
Monday, January 1
New Year's Day Holiday - City Offices Closed
Tuesday, January 2
5:00 pm - Council Workshop, Room 267
7:30 pm - Citizens' Forum, Room 267
Wednesday, January 3
12:00 pm - Economic Development and Planning Committee Meeting, Room CH-14. AGENDA: Scaleybark Transit Oriented Development
CMPD plans to purchase an Automated Vehicle Location System (AVL) to track marked vehicles equipped with laptop computers and modems. The AVL system will interface with the department's Intergraph CAD system to track vehicles assigned to Patrol, the Street Crimes Task Force, HITS and Animal Control. A total of 607 CMPD vehicles will be equipped with the AVL systems.
There will be several key benefits to having an AVL system:
It will enhance officer safety by enabling the department to pinpoint the location of a patrol vehicle when officers call for assistance in a dangerous situation
Dispatchers will know the exact location of officers, enabling them to dispatch the closest patrol vehicle to a call for service
Dispatch of officers based on their actual location will improve response time to citizen initiated calls for service
The ability to pinpoint the location of each police vehicle will complement radio interoperability in the event of a terrorist event or natural disaster
The system will enhance officer accountability
A number of police departments including Philadelphia, San Jose, San Antonio, and Nashville have implemented AVL systems. Those departments have found the systems to be beneficial in a number of ways, including tracking officers who are in dangerous situations, identifying the closest officer to a call when weather or other road conditions disrupts normal dispatch patterns, and using the system's data to investigate complaints against officers.
The AVL system will utilize I/Tracker software, an application designed by Intergraph. The cost of the software and the purchase and installation of the global positioning antennas for marked cars will be $170,000, and will involve several different contractors. The funding will come from unexpended 2004 Urban Area Security Initiative (UASI) funds. The system is the highest eligible priority for this source of federal funds.
The Housing Trust Fund Advisory Board recently elected new officers for 2007. T. Anthony Lindsey will serve his second term as Chairman and Ricky Hall will serve as Vice-Chairman. Both members have served on the Board since its inception in 2002. Also, Drew Jones was appointed by Mayor McCrory to serve the unexpired term of Tom Reddin. Other advisory board members include Bobby Drakeford, Patrick McNeely, Brian Simpson and Paul Woollard.
During the 2006 fiscal year, the Housing Trust Fund (HTF) pledged $7,745,508 toward the development of 256 housing units, leveraging $16,049,267 in private investment for these homes and achieving a funding ration of 1:3. The HTF also oversaw the completion of 904 housing units begun in previous years, bringing the total completed since the Trust Fund's inception to 1,508 and ensuring safe, affordable homes for hundreds of the City's low-income renters, homeowners, and people with special needs.
