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Lemoore council approves consent calendar; members praise new in-house police dispatch server
Summary
The Lemoore City Council on Oct. 21 approved routine consent items and unanimously approved a previously pulled IT item after staff described system architecture, redundancy and service-level compliance; council members thanked IT analyst Hayden for building the police dispatch server in-house.
The Lemoore City Council on Oct. 21 approved a slate of consent calendar items and later approved a pulled information-technology item after staff and council members discussed system architecture and regulatory compliance.
Council Member Dave Cruz moved to approve the consent calendar items 4-1, 4-2, 4-3, 4-4, 4-6, 4-7 and 4-8, with a second by Council Member Lyons; Mayor Mary Matthews and the two council members voted yes and the motion passed 3 in favor, 2 absent. The council later considered item 4-5, which had been pulled for follow-up questions and discussion about the city—s new systems.
Council Member Cruz thanked city clerk Marissa Avalos and IT analyst Hayden for their work on the matter and said the team had addressed earlier concerns about architecture, redundancy and service-level agreements. "They also meet regulatory and legal compliance except for the CJIS compliance, but I don't think that we're storing any PD data for that purpose," Cruz said during the meeting.
The council discussed details of the IT work in public comment and in the council discussion. According to a staff nomination read into the record, Hayden, the city's IT analyst, built the police dispatch server in-house, which the nomination said saved the city "thousands of dollars in consultant fees." Council remarks recognized that the system had been tested and that the team implemented backups and service-level arrangements that meet industry norms.
Votes at a glance - Motion to approve consent calendar items 4-1, 4-2, 4-3, 4-4, 4-6, 4-7, 4-8 (excluding 4-5): Mover — Council Member Dave Cruz; Second — Council Member Lyons; Tally — Yes: Mayor Mary Matthews, Council Member Dave Cruz, Council Member Lyons; Outcome — approved 3-0, 2 absent. - Motion to approve pulled item (recorded as "4 tax plat" in the transcript): Mover — Council Member Dave Cruz; Second — Council Member Lyons; Tally — Yes: Mayor Mary Matthews, Council Member Dave Cruz, Council Member Lyons; Outcome — approved 3-0, 2 absent.
The council concluded the meeting with a scheduled closed session on labor negotiations under Government Code section 54957.6.
The votes and discussion did not specify the identities of the two absent members. The record of the IT item noted that CJIS (Criminal Justice Information Services) compliance was not applicable because the city is not storing police criminal-justice data on the system in question.
The meeting moved on to other agenda items after approval of the consent calendar and the IT item.
