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HomeMy WebLinkAbout10-07-2002 Meeting I PUBLIC SAFETY COMMITrEE COMMITTEE ROOM - October 7, 2002 1:30 P. M. PRESENT: M. Williams, Chairman, L. Beard, T. Boyles, S. Shepard members, Commissioners R. Colclough and U. Bridges, F. Russell, Deputy Administrator, J. Wall, Attorney, L. Bonner, Clerk of Commission. MEDIA: H. Williams, Augusta Chronicle, S. Norris, Augusta Focus, S. Eidson, Metro Spirit, D. L. McIntyre, Channel 6. Oerk: Delete Item 2 and add Discussion of the ambulance contract with Rural Metro for next year. Mr. Shepard: You don't have unanimous consent for the addition. Mr. Williams: Madam Clerk, since we don't have unanimous consent for the addition we'll add this to the Commission agenda for Tuesday. 1. Approve a three-year contract with AT&T for Inmate Telephone Service at ReCI. Mr. Beard: So move for approval. I Mr. Boyles: Second. Mr. Beard: How is that 45% used that we receive. Mr. Leverett: That money is collected and turned into the City treasury. It then goes into a special fund and budgeted throughout the year for request that I may have for recreation equipment for the inmates and also to replace equipment. Mr. Beard: So you do receive this. Mr. Leverett: Not the full amount. This year I had budgeted $28,000. Out of possibly $36,000.00 that we received last year. We got the $28,000 the other $8,000 went to the City. Mr. Beard: Is the Sheriff allowed to do what he wants with his Mr. Wall: I don't think so. I don't know the division. Part of the money is kept by the Sheriff's Dept., some of the money does come back to the General Fund. I Mr. Williams: Can we instruct the Administrator to find out those figures. What part is kept; what part comes back and who has the authorization to use it. Motion carries unanimously. 1 2. Discussion of the construction of the new Animal eontrol Facility. (Requested by eommissioner Williams) I Deleted from agenda. 3. Approval of Purchase of Services Grant for juvenile offenders. Mr. Beard: Move for approval. Mr. Shepard: Second. Motion carries unanimously. 4. Motion to enter into a contract with the firms of R. D. Brown eonstruction eompany for the construction of Fire Station #1 in the amount of $1,471,000.00 and Sherman eonstruction eompany for the construction of Fire Stations #7 and #19 in the respective amounts of $1,326,000.00 and $1,340,000.00. Mr. Boyles: Move for approval. Mr. Beard: Second. I saw in the backup that you didn't have the funds for #1, but you have the funds for #7 and #19. How are we doing that? Chief Gillespie: That's correct for that individual one. We'll have the funds if we combine all three projects. In our SPLOST funding we have available funding that can cover the funds from the other two stations and can roll in and cover the difference in that one. I Chief Rogers: The numbers that were quoted to us when the contracts first came in, we realized that these numbers were above and beyond what we decided we could afford to pay. I think we were figuring construction cost at a $1.07 per square foot, it came in roughly at $1.37. What we did was go back and negotiate with the architect and the builder. Station #1, we now have a contract price of $1,411,086 which reflects about a $60,000 lower charge. Station #7, the original cost was $1,326,000, we now have that down to $1,222,000, which reflects about $104,000. Also, for Station #19 the original cost was $1,340,000, we now have that reduced to $1,283,325. We did not lower the quality of the station, we eliminated some quality of the building material to the next level below that and just some minor changes in this. We feel like we will have a quality facility built with the amount of money that we negotiated for. As we know, we were only allocated $1.5 million for the construction of each station. Presently, we do have Station #7 and Station #19 coming in roughly about $148,000 under budget. So we're looking at a residual of about $210,000 and the project with the three stations as is right now. I 2 I Motion carries unanimously. 5. Approval of upgrade to Novell Netware Version 6. Mr. Beard: So move for approval. Mr. Shepard: Second. Motion carries unanimously. 6. Approve upgrading the current eompaq ProLiant server to a new ProLiant server and the purchase of a new Gateway server for content filtering of outside traffic. Mr. Shepard: So move for approval. Mr. Beard: Second. Motion carries unanimously. 7. Approve Amendment to Augusta-Richmond eounty eode Title 4, ehapter 1, Article 2, to require dog and cat owners to obtain a Pet License from Augusta's Animal eontrol Department. I Dr. Bragdon: Several years ago there was an attempt to pass the Pet Licensing Ordinance. I feel that we need to revisit this issue for several reasons. (1) I believe it will improve the enforcement that we offer in that we can better prove ownership of a pet and then hold any responsible pet owner accountable. (2) We will improve the services that we provide to pet owners. Rather than having a pet sit in our shelter for three to five days waiting for an owner to find it, we can actually calI that owner and return it. So in effect it's a very cost effective insurance policy that we will return the pet to the owner . We have gone over this with our Advisory Board. We've proposed somewhat of a get out of free jail card so that the first time a licensed pet is caught or impounded for infraction or violation of the lease law, we'll actually waive the fees and return that pet to the owner at no charge. That has nothing to do with enforcement of the law or taking that person to court. Finally, quite frankly it will generate revenue that we hope will be used to expand programs at Animal Control so that we can market the various Ordinances that regulate pet ownership. There are still people in our community that don't know that there is a leash law and that a rabies vaccination is required by law. So the first step would be to put money into marketing. And I think the second step would be to use that money to increase enforcement by increasing the number of trucks and personnel we have patrolling our streets. Right now we only have personnel available for answering complaints, we don't do patrolling. So, I feel like this Ordinance actually serves the entire community. I 3 It serves our pets our pet owning population and our non-pet owning population. We have different proposals in mind on how we would administer this. Mr. Shepard: Has your Advisory Board taken a position on these fees in the form of a Resolution? I Dr. Bragdon: Yes. We did discuss this with the Advisory Board and it was approved. Mr. Shepard: Have public hearings been observed by the Animal Control Advisory Board? Dr. Bragdon: To give you a brief history on what I've done to work on this proposal. Last November we did have a meeting where we invited a fair number of people from the community. They came and I solicited information or input from them as to what they wanted and that's where a number of our policies and procedures were developed. We then held another informational meeting through Pride and Progress in May that was not highly attended. We also did take this Ordinance proposal to the public health department and I do have a letter from them stating that they do support the Ordinance. Mr. Wall: No, there has not been a public meeting at which the Animal Control Advisory Board considered this. And there is no requirement that you have a public hearing. Now if the Commission wishes us to schedule a public hearing then we can do that. I Mr. Shepard: I would like the Animal Control Advisory Board to hold such a hearing on these type things. I'm not ready to promote an increase in the animal fees today. I would like to make a motion to postpone this item pending the decision of the Animal eontrol Advisory Board to hold hearings. Mr. Beard: Second. Motion carries unanimously. 8. Approve a proposal from ADT Security in the amount of $88,190 to implement Phase II of the Security Plan. Mr. Shepard: So move for approval. Mr. Beard: Second. 1'd like to hear from the Marshal as to what the security plan is. Marshal Smith: This is the plan for the Law Enforcement Center basically setting up the same type of security system over there that we have here. The funds are I in the budget. 4 I Motion carries unanimously. ADJOURNMENT: With no further business to discuss the meeting was adjourned. Lena J. Bonner Clerk of Commission /bb I I 5 PUBLIC SAFETY AGENDA COMMITTEE ROOM - October 7, 2002 1:30 P. M. 1. Approve a three-year contract with AT&T for Inmate Telephone Service at RCCL 2. Discussion of the construction of the new Animal Control Facility. (Requested by Commissioner Williams) 3. Approval of Purchase of Services Grant for juvenile offenders. 4. Motion to enter into a contract with the firms ofR. D. Brown Construction Company for the construction of Fire Station #1 in the amount of$1,47l,000.00 and Sherman Construction Company for the construction of Fire Stations #7 and #19 in the respective amounts of$I,326,000.00 and $1,340,000.00. 5. Approval of upgrade to Novell Netware Version 6. 6. Approve upgrading the current Compaq ProLiant server to a new ProLiant server and the purchase of a new Gateway server for content filtering of outside traffic. 7. Approve Amendment to Augusta-Richmond County Code Title 4, Chapter I, Article 2, to require dog and cat owners to obtain a Pet License from Augusta's A nim" 1 Control Department. - . - ~ 8. Approve a proposal from ADT Security in the amount of $88,190 to implement Phase II of the Security Plan. - ADDENDUM PUBLIC SAFETY AGENDA October 7,2002 1:30P. M. ADDITION TO THE AGENDA: I. Discuss ambulance contract with Rural Metro for next year. (Requested by Commissioner Williams) ....... - -