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EE . <br />Xecluest for Council Action <br />Date: MOM <br />Item Number: EK. A. <br />Department Approval Manager Approval Agenda Section <br />Diehard B. Gasaway fond Business <br />Item Description: Mobile Data Computers <br />Bac1 und: For the past several years, the Fire Marshal and Fire Inspector have been gathering valuable <br />information about buildings in Roseville. The timely access to the information about these buildings and their <br />contents will improve firefighter safety. This information includes: <br />• Type of building construction and special construction concerns <br />• Description of hazardous processes <br />Special occupancy concerts (large numbers of occupants or special needs occupants) <br />Location of: <br />o Key box <br />o Alarm panel <br />o Electrical panel <br />o Gas main shut -off <br />o Heating/cooling units <br />o Exits I <br />o Hazardous materials storage <br />GIS and mapping data, including street/building and hydrant locations, topographical data for haz -mat <br />run -off, suer and water systems grids <br />Hazardous Materials mitigation information <br />This information, and the timely access to it, is veal important to firefighter safety and affects the decisions <br />made by command officers at the scene of a fire. Currently, this information is housed in the city's network and <br />there is no means to access this information in the field, where it is needed most. While the mobile data <br />computers will have the ability to be connected to a computer system, through the radio system (like the police <br />department's mobile data computers), we would prefer to hold on the purchase of the equipment needed to do <br />this until the decisions have been made with regard to switching to the goo Nfflz radio system. In the interim, <br />the data will be loaded in the computer hard -gives and updated periodically by the Fire Marshal. Approval of <br />this purchase will fund 8 computers to be located in: Engines 11, 2 1, and 31, Squads 1, 2, 900, 930, 940 and <br />941. The cost of installation is included in the price. <br />Policy j ective: Firefighter safety is a tap priority for the fire depaTtment. Timely access to valuable pre -plan <br />information will help improve the safety of firefighters. <br />Financial: The requested amount, $44,235, is included in the fire department's 2003 operating budget. <br />Staff Recommendation: Staff recommends the approval of the purchase of the mobile data cornputen to <br />enhance firefighter safety. <br />Council Action Requested.: A motion td approve the purchase of mobile data computers for the fire department <br />at a cost not to exceed $44,235 <br />