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Vice Committee Chair White stated she wants to get back to her budget questions. She asked if <br />the only major change in the budget was the tower. <br />Mr. Agostino responded there have been in terms of overtime for personnel costs. Those have <br />been major changes in the budget. <br />Mr. Croymans stated he was speaking only to the technology portion of the budget. The only <br />other component that we had that was of an additional cost was a change order because the <br />previous director did not set up every major dispatch position to have all three (3) major <br />communication tools. So we actually added six (6) radio positions in the dispatch center. That <br />was $75,000 per radio. There will be an additional cost for the metro net piece, which we <br />absorbed out of our lease. <br />Council President Scott stated overall we are beyond our timeframe, we were supposed to be in <br />this in 2015. That is about a year off. <br />Mr. Croymans stated when he took over as Director, he pointed out that it was not a feasible <br />timetable. <br />Mr. Agostino stated there was a safety concern of moving in there with operation of the <br />equipment without the upgrades. We physically could have located there but it would have been <br />a big risk. <br />Council President Scott asked Dan O'Conner how much time and effort South Bend IT is <br />spending on PSAP. <br />Mr. O'Conner stated they have been brought in more as a consultative role and working in the <br />technical group meetings. It is hard to quantify that because we have really gotten those up and <br />running. It is taking more of City time certainly. He stated it is not putting a significant drain on <br />them and all parties need to make sure they have representatives working with Brent and <br />contributing more than they have been to make sure we are covering our bases. <br />Council President Scott asked if they are going to be involved further down the road. <br />Mr. O'Conner responded that he has a responsibility to the City to make sure our interfaces are <br />working and that the South Bend portion works properly. We will be involved to whatever level <br />that requires. <br />Mr. Agostino stated they are also involved in the mobile laptop buildup because there has to be <br />software installed on those as well. They stepped up to the plate on that issue. <br />Chief Cox stated he would like to add that Mr. O'Conner's team provides IT support with pretty <br />much everything that we do. This is just one (1) part of the project for us, so we rely on his team <br />to help us out a lot. <br />D <br />