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ANALYSIS: <br />Precision Contracting Services, (PCS) has completed a study and <br />recommended replacing most of the present equipment, and installing <br />a complete new speaker system that will properly distribute the <br />sound. The cost 'to accomplish this renovation is estimated at <br />$9,000.00. <br />FUNDING: <br />Since no funds are available, money must come from General Funds <br />Contingencies. <br />RECOMMENDATION: <br />Staff recommends that an amendment.be made to the PCS contract and <br />action be taken to proceed with the recommended renovations. It is <br />also requested that the Board Chairman be authorized to execute the <br />appropriate documents. <br />MOTION WAS MADE by Commissioner Macht, <br />SECONDED by Commissioner Adams, to amend the <br />Precision Contracting Services, Inc. (PCS) <br />contract and proceed with the recommended <br />renovations to the BCC Chambers sound system <br />at an estimated cost of $9,000. <br />Under discussion, Commissioner Bird was not convinced that the <br />additional $9,000 was the answer since he believed that no sound -- <br />system would pick up voices of speakers who did not speak directly <br />into the microphones. <br />General Services Director Sonny Dean explained that new mixers <br />would adjust automatically to the level of the speakers, voices. <br />With the system as it was now, if the volume is turned up too much, <br />feedback is a problem. Also, new speakers would be installed in <br />the ceiling and the sound would go down to the listeners uniformly. <br />Chairman Tippin said he raised this issue because he has <br />received many complaints, especially now that meetings are <br />televised, that when someone moves to a chart they are not heard. <br />He believed that state-of-the-art equipment was necessary and would <br />permit the Indian River County Commission Chambers to have a <br />consistently working sound system. <br />Commissioner Adams agreed, but wondered if it would be <br />possible to wait until it could be budgeted instead of taking it <br />out of contingency. She realized, however, it might be more <br />economical to do it while the contractor was working at the new <br />courthouse. <br />44 <br />December 13, 1994 <br />