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Speaker of the Board of Mayor and Audreman meeting for September 8, 2025, and we have John Longworth, one of

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our carable police chaplains with us this evening. And if Audreman Marshall will leave us in the

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pledge of relief, please rise. Thank you. Thank you very much for being here.

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Absolutely. Let's pray together. Father, Lord tells us that this is the day the Lord has made, which

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shall rejoice and be glad in it. But if we're honest with ourselves, there are days we just

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don't feel like we're joycing. And I know that there are people perhaps some in this room who

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I've just had a difficult day, we face challenges and circumstances that are less than ideal

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and I pray that will be sensitive to the needs of one another and as a town we would encourage one another

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and uplift one another.

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Father, I thank you for the people that service so well for the town employees.

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I pray that they'll continue to have a desire to do their jobs with excellence.

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I thank you for Chief Lane and Chief Selberg and for the men and women that serve under their leadership.

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protect and service so well in Lord I pray that you will watch out over them and care for

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them and protect them even as they protect us. I thank you for our mayor, Lord, and our

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board of Audemn, and we asked tonight Lord that you would give them divine wisdom to govern

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justly, pray Father, that you would give them strength to lead faithfully and discernment to

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and critically, and humility to serve selflessly.

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What I pray that their decisions would honor you and serve the well-being of our community.

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Lord may they be united as they consider the business before them this evening,

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and I pray God that the discussions that take place tonight would be marked with respect

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and a shared commitment to make our town a better, a safer, and a more friendly place

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to live, work, and play.

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Again, I thank you for our leaders, blessed in my praise, they serve us.

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We ask this in Jesus name. Amen.

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I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America.

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And it's through the Republic, which is said, one nation under God,

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indivisible with liberty and justice for all.

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Thank you so very much, Mr. Longward, and Alderman Marshall.

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The next item on the agenda is the role.

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Mr. Hall? Mr. Marshall? Mr. Robbins?

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Yes.

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We have a forum.

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Thank you all for being here.

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The first item on our agenda is the approval of the agenda.

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Mr. Mayor, are there any changes or corrections to our agenda?

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Mayor, we have no changes or corrections this evening.

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Is there a motion to approve the agenda?

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Motion to approve the agenda?

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Second.

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Okay. We have a motion in a second.

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Ms. Diamond, if you call the roll please.

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Ms. Marshall? Yes. Mr. Robbins? Yes. Mr. Hall? Yes.

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Mayor Freisher? Yes. The agenda has been approved. The next agenda item is a group of the minutes.

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We had a work session on August 25th, 2025. Everyone's had a chance to review those minutes.

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Are there any changes, relations or corrections? Seeing none, is there motion? Motion to approve.

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Second. May the motion in a second? Ms. Diamond, please? Ms. Marshall? Yes. Mr. Robbins? Yes.

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Mr. Hall? Yes. Mayer Fration? Yes. Those minutes are approved. The next set of minutes are from our board meeting on August 25th, 2025. Any changes or corrections to those minutes?

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Seeing none is there a motion? Motion to approve. Second.

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Give a motion in a second. Ms. Diamond, if you call the roll please. Mr. Robin?

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Yes. Mr. Hall? Yes. Ms. Marshall? Yes. Mayer Fration? Yes. Those minutes are approved. Do we have any presentations this evening?

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This may or no special presentations this evening.

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The next item on the agenda is sit us in comments and I did receive a comment card right before 6 o'clock by the skin of her team.

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We would love to hear from you.

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I'm going to go over a few just a few quick rules.

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If you would come to the front, ask your name and address for the record.

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Our meetings are live streamed in televised, so we will make sure you speak into the microphone.

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and you have three minutes to speak and you'll see a like a stop sign there when she starts

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seeing yellow kind of wrap up your comments and I would like to invite Melissa

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Heiss to come speak to the board and I don't know that I said that correctly that's fine

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It's heissie I live at 50-hint and co-carryville Tennessee welcome. Thank you

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Okay, I'm here to actually get some clarification from

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from Strike from the Horses Males

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where the French social media as well.

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I've never spoken before the board and the mayor.

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But I have a question, I know that probably everybody

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in this room has noticed there is some adults

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and some children that are regularly

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at the corner of Simmons Bank and Pef boys.

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I'd like to know how the towns.

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Thanks.

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The towns organization, political organization has addressed that, and what can we do, because I'm very concerned

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about the children that are under, I would consider, whether to rest and educational to rest.

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So if you could address what has actually taken place between the city and those particular

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people that I'm talking about. And what can we do as a community to reach out and help those children?

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Okay, thank you very much for your comments. Chief Lane is in the room. I know we've all

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have received many phone calls. We are all very concerned as well. I'd like Chief Lane if you

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would address as to what you know about the situation and what the citizens might be able to

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to assist. Okay, thank you Mayor Board.

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Ma'am, I want to say we share your concern as well and just to give you an idea of what's

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occurred since January. The Cardinal Police Department has checked or stopped make calls

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over 60 times since January. Each time our officers come we check to make sure there's no

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laws being violated. We check on the welfare of the kids and we offer transportation to

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shelters, anything that we can do.

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We've contacted Department of Children's Services four times.

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They come out, they check the children, tell us each time that everything is okay, that

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there's nothing wrong.

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We continue to check them even, especially in the hot weather.

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You mentioned extreme temperatures, very concerning to us.

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So each time they refuse to our help, that every time we check, there's the children

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I've been okay, you know, they're well behaved, I don't know if you've ever stopped.

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I'm very impressed.

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I mean, too, and I've got grandkids, so I get it.

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So trust me, it's not for lack of care.

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Myself, assistant chief, Townsend Boat, went and spoke with them.

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And I asked them, I asked the gentleman, I said, what can we do to help get you and your family off the street?

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I was willing to help him get a job, do whatever I could do, and he refused our help.

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We verify DCS verified that they are homeschooled, and they're properly registered, so

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they're not out of school.

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And so right now, I think I know we have such a wonderful community that wants to help,

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but given that those cash donations, I think, is what's driving this.

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And so they're not violating any laws.

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We check that every time our officers are well aware of them and have been by there.

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And we attempt to deal with it compassionately, but we are restricted by the wall.

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We can only do what the wall allows us to do it until they violate the wall.

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We can't make an arrest or anything like that.

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If we saw the children in danger, we absolutely would act, and that's just not the case.

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So I'm hoping for any questions you have, or maybe if you have any more for us, if you

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go out to answer.

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Well, I'll be glad to give you my number.

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If you want to talk with me, you probably want to talk with me.

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with the decision makers, but we want to help, we do, and if you have any ideas, we are

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definitely open.

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Well, I'll give you my word that the cargo police department will continue to check

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them, and if they're ever in danger, we'll make sure that they're not. Also, you mentioned

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social media, we put a post out about a month ago that it describes state law, some of the actions

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that we were doing that came directly from us, which then you got competing sides arguing

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for against, you know, so we don't want to do that, but I'll be glad to help you anyway

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we can.

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Okay.

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Thank you, Chief.

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Thank you very much.

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We appreciate it.

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And thank you for your care.

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We do appreciate that as well.

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All right.

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The next item on the agenda is the consent agenda.

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We have items A, A through A, M.

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Is there anyone on the board that would like any item

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hold for a presentation?

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If none, is there a motion, please?

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Motion to agree with the consent agenda.

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Second.

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Motion and a second to approve consent agenda.

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Ms. Daniel, you'll call the vote, please.

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Mr. Robbins?

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Yes.

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Mr. Hall?

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Yes.

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Ms. Marshall?

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Mayor Frazier?

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Yes.

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The next item has been approved.

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The next item under business item is resolution 2025-41.

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One, resolution to amend the FY26 general fund budget.

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JP's files are budget officer has our presentation.

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Good evening, Mayor Member of the Board. Resolution 2025-41 is a request to amend the fiscal year

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2026 general fund budget. Police is requesting a budget amendment to appropriate 41,000, $231,

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a building privilege tax. It's held in general fund committed fund balance. It's to cover

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the cost of software upgrade for the in-car camera video evidence library.

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That's a short and

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motion please make a motion to the second we have a motion in a second this time

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in please Mr. Hall yes this marshal yes Mr. Robbins yes mayor

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facial yes thank you very much and the next business item is the purchase of

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Motorola Solutions Evidence Library 5 and we have Inspector Chris Rossi with us this

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evening Inspector Rossi

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good evening mayor and members of the board so the back a

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a bit of background on this is we utilize motor roller solutions, watch guard software, it's called

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evidence elaborate for us, the current software that we've been utilizing. The cameras allow

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police department to preserve footage, critical incidents, evidence, and mitigate risk exposure

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to the town by recording video from the cars. Ultimately, this video, excuse me, video is

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then uploaded via the cloud and stored on our own premises server.

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So, in 2023, we discovered that Motorola is this continued evidence library for and the support maintenance on that software.

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Since that time, we've had a few issues, but we were able to mitigate those by calling tech support.

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They were still assisting with fixing the software, fixing the upload issues.

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Currently, we're in the process of trying to switch our new fleet new vehicles that we

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purchased over to Axon, which is the in-car of software also.

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So we're slowly facing out the Motorola anyway, so we thought what we had would suffice.

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Because of the replacement, obviously, like I said, we didn't anticipate that it'd be necessary

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to upgrade.

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We recently started having more issues with it, and ultimately their technical support

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advised us that if you don't upgrade to the new software, which is evidence library five,

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that you could lose critical videos and evidence that are on the server and it could

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crash and be unrecoverable.

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So because of that,

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we're wishing to upgrade in the amount of $41,230 in three cents

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the motion that Mr. Spos just presented that was approved.

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Basically that will ensure preservation of the recordings, mitigate risk to the town, and it

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also provide five-year maintenance and support,

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which should we're just to upgrade.

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I'm sorry, phasing out Motorola

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and going to the new system of X on by the time

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that period is expired.

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The suggested action is to approve the Motorola Solutions

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Evidence Library 5 with extended maintenance support,

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warranties for five years using the source mobile video,

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1-0-1-2-3-3-m-o-t contract number 3-6-8-7-4 of total of 41-230 dollars in 3 cents, and I'm

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available if anyone has any questions that we have to answer.

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Thank you, Inspector.

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Are there any questions for staff?

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Seeing none is there a motion?

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Motion to approve.

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Second.

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The motion in the second.

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Ms. Diamond, if you'll call the roll, please?

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Ms. Marshall?

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Mr. Robin?

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Yes.

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Mr. Hall? Yes.

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President. Yes. That's been approved. Thank you. Thank you very much. Appreciate you. This

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night. Is there any additional business to come before us to see? Thank you everyone for being here.

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We are adjourned.