City of Milwaukee - File #: 091674

• File #: 091674
• Version: 1
• Type: Resolution
• Status: Placed On File
• File created: 4/13/2010
• In control: PUBLIC SAFETY COMMITTEE
• Final action: 10/16/2012
• Title: Substitute resolution appropriating $700,000 from the 2010 Common Council Contingent Fund for purchase of digital radios for the Police Department.
• Sponsors: ALD. DONOVAN
• Indexes: COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEMS, CONTINGENT FUND, POLICE DEPARTMENT

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result	Tally
10/16/2012	1	COMMON COUNCIL	PLACED ON FILE	Pass	15:0
10/4/2012	1	PUBLIC SAFETY COMMITTEE	RECOMMENDED FOR PLACING ON FILE	Pass	4:0
10/1/2012	1	PUBLIC SAFETY COMMITTEE	HEARING NOTICES SENT
4/22/2010	1	PUBLIC SAFETY COMMITTEE	HELD TO CALL OF THE CHAIR; Minutes note: Held at the request of the sponsor.	Pass	5:0
4/15/2010	0	PUBLIC SAFETY COMMITTEE	HEARING NOTICES SENT
4/14/2010	0	PUBLIC SAFETY COMMITTEE	HEARING NOTICES SENT
4/13/2010	0	COMMON COUNCIL	ASSIGNED TO

Number
091674
Version
SUBSTITUTE 1
Reference
Sponsor
ALD. DONOVAN
Title
Substitute resolution appropriating $700,000 from the 2010 Common Council Contingent Fund for purchase of digital radios for the Police Department.
Analysis
This resolution appropriates $700,000 from the 2010 Common Council Contingent Fund to pay for the purchase of digital radios for the Milwaukee Police Department. This amount, along with an anticipated $900,000 appropriation from the Police Department Asset Forfeiture funds, will provide the $1.6 million required to purchase 450 radios for the Police Department. This purchase will result in the outfitting of every field officer requiring a radio with an OpenSky handheld digital radio.
Body
Whereas, In 2003, The Milwaukee Police Department began a multi-year communication replacement project to its radio communications from a conventional two-way analog wireless system to a trunked digital control system; and

Whereas, Providing each officer with his or her own radio will increase officer safety, as each officer will be able to program the radio specific to duties and assignments; and

Whereas, The Police Department has proposed funding the purchase of the remaining radios by appropriating $900,000 in 2010 from the Asset Forfeiture fund and appropriating the remaining $700,000 in 2011 from the Asset Forfeiture fund; and

Whereas, Completing the transition to digital radios in 2010 rather than 2011 will provide increased safety for every officer a year earlier; now, therefore, be it

Resolved, By the Common Council of the City of Milwaukee, that $700,000 is appropriated from the 2010 Common Council Contingent Fund (#0001-9990-0001-C001-006300) for the Police Department's Equipment Purchase Account (#0001-3310-R999-006800); and, be it

Further Resolved, That the City Comptroller is authorized to transfer $700,000 of the funds reserved within the Contingent Fund to the Police Department.

Requestor
Drafter
LRB10158-2
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