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O <br />IX. What about interface to court system? <br />A. They have no interface to the court system except through the use of <br />tapes passed bacK and forth. They have access to the court system by <br />use of a third CRT at the dispatch console that is outside of the <br />C.A.D. system. The court system of St. Louis County runs on two <br />IBM mainframes. Access to NCIC and other databases is handled the <br />same way with the added CRT at the console. <br />X. Start up and on going support after the system is delivered? <br />A. We all have to understand that all the people in the consortium <br />hold jobs with their respective governments and the amount of time' <br />that they will be able to give will be very limited. They are bank- <br />ing on getting a system that is very user friendly and having it <br />thoroughly documented to cut down the need for support. If on site <br />support is needed, we will have to pay all expenses of the person <br />sent with no guarantee one will be available. <br />XI. Physical space requirements needed? <br />A. A sound conditioned room -about 30 x 40 to house four complaint takers <br />and two dispatchers as well as a supervisor console. <br />XII_ Electrical and air condition requirements? <br />A. A standard office environment is all that is needed. They do not <br />have power backup but in Vero we would have to have a UPS to support <br />the system at an estimated cost of $25,000 to $30,000. <br />XIII. Future use of mobile units? <br />A. Allowances will be made to give the.C.A.D. system the ability to handle <br />M.D.T.'s, but no analysis of the hardware or its cost has been done. <br />Two vendors have shown an interest and they are Motorola and MDI. <br />XIV. If Indian River decides to not become a charter member will the system still <br />be available? At what cost? <br />A. The thinking now is that once it is developed and all costs are met <br />as planned, the consortium will be able to make the system available <br />to others at a cost of $40,000. <br />XV. What is the size and status of the current C.A.D. system installed in <br />At. Louis County? <br />A. The current C.A.D. system was written for Minneapolis, Minnesota by <br />Arthur D. Little at a cost of over $400,000. It was given to St. <br />Louis County where it now supports a population of over 500,000 people. <br />They handle 610,000 incoming calls per year with five dispatchers. <br />The current system is capable of handling police, fire and EMS, but <br />St. Louis County only uses the police portion. The system is written <br />in assembler language making it almost impossible to modify, that is <br />the reason St. Louis wants to rewrite it. It currently runs on a <br />Data General S-130 with another S-130 as backup. Each of the five _ <br />dispatch consoles in place cost $40,000 including furniture and com- <br />munications equipment. St. Louis County was able to reduce its <br />records section from 70 people to 29 and still handle over 250,000 <br />incidents each year with C.A.R.E. You can see clearly they are much <br />larger than we are and this is an important factor I think. <br />j i <br />99 <br />BOOK a rr{lr.91134 <br />t <br />