ADOPTED - MARCH 13, 2007

Agenda Item No. 17

 

Introduced by the Law Enforcement and Finance Committees of the:

 

INGHAM COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS

 

RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE INGHAM COUNTY SHERIFF’S OFFICE PARTICIPATION IN THE COPS GRANT RECORDS MANAGEMENT SYSTEM PROJECT (RMS)

 

RESOLUTION #07-056

 

WHEREAS, the City of Lansing has received a COPS Grant from the U.S. Department of Justice for the voice and data interoperability project; and

 

WHEREAS, the focus of the grant is to encourage interoperable communications between public safety units on a regional basis; and

 

WHEREAS, one component of the project is a new Records Management System (RMS) / Computer Aided Dispatch (CAD) for East Lansing, Meridian Township, and the Michigan State University Department of Public Safety with the Records Management System (RMS) portion of the project being utilized by the Ingham County Sheriff’s Office, Lansing Township Police, Williamston Police, and Mason Police; and

 

WHEREAS, this part of the project has been guided by a consortium known as the Technology Improvement Cooperative (TIC) which developed a RFP with East Lansing being the lead agency; and

 

WHEREAS, VisionAIR was the vendor selected by the TIC group; and

 

WHEREAS, East Lansing will be entering into a contract with VisionAIR for the RMS/CAD and the other six agencies will enter into a subcontract with East Lansing to pay for their proportionate share of the contract; and

 

WHEREAS, the 911 Advisory Board and the IJIS Committee are recommending that Ingham County participate in this project and are recommending funds to come from the IJIS budget to pay for the Ingham County Sheriff’s Office proportionate amount.

 

THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, that the Ingham County Board of Commissioners authorizes entering into a subcontract with the City of East Lansing for the new Records Management System (RMS) portion of the COPS Interoperable Communication Technology Program grant for the time period of  September 1, 2005 through August 31, 2008, to fund the new Records Management System (RMS) and up to $155,127 as the proportionate share of the project implementation costs and an additional up to $39,265 as the proportionate share of the first year project maintenance costs which includes:

 

1)   Records software to include the following modules: 

Accidents, alarm billing, field based reporting, fleet management, intelligence, narcotics, evidence and property room (to include bar coding), warrants, civil process, pawn, parking tickets, citations, gun permits, and others applications.

2)   Project management and implementation and interfaces with CAD, Courtview 2000, JMS (jail management system) to RMS, APS (advanced public safety, electronic citation vendor).

 

3)   Hardware and servers (to include CAD, RMS, Mobile servers and a spare).  This also includes a SAN (storage area network) racks, network hardware, accessories and wiring.

 

ADOPTED - MARCH 13, 2007

Agenda Item No. 17

 

RESOLUTION #07-056

 

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that these Records Management System (RMS) project funds will come from the IJIS budget.

 

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the Chairperson of the Ingham County Board of Commissioners and the County Clerk are authorized to sign any necessary contract documents with the City East of Lansing, the appropriate vendor (VisionAIR) and other participating agencies consistent with this resolution and approved as to form by the County Attorney.

 

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the expenditure of funds for these projects are contingent on the other partner municipalities agreeing to participate in the new Records Management System (RMS) / Computer Aided Dispatch (CAD) project portion of the COPS Interoperable Communication Technology Program Grant.

 

LAW ENFORCEMENT:  Yeas:  Copedge, Soule, Celentino,  De Leon, Schafer

       Nays:  None          Absent:  Holman          Approved 3/1/07

 

FINANCE:  Yeas: Celentino, Grant, Grebner, Hertel, Soule, Dougan

       Nays:  None          Absent:  None        Approved 3/7/07