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PUBLIC DISCUSSION - KING'S HIGHWAY (58TH AVENUE) <br />WIDENING TO 5 LANES BETWEEN 26TH STREET AND <br />4TH STREET - LATERAL "B" CANAL CLEARING <br />Deferred. <br />PUBLIC DISCUSSION - HARRY RIGHTON - REQUEST TO DISCUSS <br />MURPHY ACT REGARDING HIS PROPERTY <br />Deleted. <br />EMERGENCY OPERATIONS CENTER - CGA-MUNICATIONS TOWER <br />RENOVATION - REPLACEMENT AT COUNTY ADMINISTRATION <br />BUILDING - COMNIMCATIONS INTERNATIONAL <br />The Board reviewed a Memorandum of August 26, 1996: <br />TO: Board of County Commissioners <br />THROUGH: Doug Wright, Director \o \) <br />Department of Emergency Services <br />FROM: John King, Emergency Management Coordinator 'Silk <br />Division of Emergency Management <br />DATE: August 26, 1996 <br />SUBJECT: Communications Tower Renovation/Replacement At the County <br />Administration Building Emergency Operations Center <br />It is respectfully requested that the information contained herein <br />be given formal consideration by the Board of County Commissioners <br />at the next scheduled meeting. <br />DESCRIPTION AND CONDITIONS: <br />In the FY -95/96 Emergency Management budget, funds were approved in <br />capital and non -capital accounts to renovate/replace the <br />communications tower, antennas, and coaxial cables located above <br />the Emergency Operations Center (EOC) at the County Administration <br />Building. The tower modifications/upgrades are necessary for the <br />EOC to communicate with municipal governments and field teams <br />during a local emergency. <br />Staff has met with Communications International, the communication <br />vendor who is installing the county wide 800 MHz trunked radio <br />communications system to provide a proposal to complete the <br />project. They physically climbed and inspected the tower to <br />itemize needed replacement parts. While doing the inspection, they <br />found that some of the amateur radio equipment used to communicate <br />with emergency public shelters either had failing mounting <br />brackets, needed replacement antennas, or needed to be relocated on <br />the tower to provide the necessary spacing from other antennas to <br />improve the RF signal and eliminate interference. <br />No new funds are requested for this project since $6,000.00 was <br />budgeted in the current fiscal year Emergency Management capital <br />account (066.45) and $2,749.84 is available in non -.capital <br />communications repair account (044.71) to repair/replace other <br />parts of the emergency communications tower at the EOC. <br />ALTERNATIVES AND ANALYSIS: <br />The project requires communications personnel to climb the tower at <br />the EOC and remove many of the antennas and coax cables attached <br />before reassembling the replacement reconfiguration. Due to the <br />insurance requirements related to doing repair work on <br />communications towers, staff has not found other vendors available <br />locally to do the additional tower work. Other tower crews that <br />SEPTEMBER 3, 1996 31 ' <br />BOOK 98 ��°=I 7 <br />I <br />