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Police and fire items include donated bus, crime-scene camera grant, traffic-safety grants and $1M radio bond request
Summary
Fire and police officials presented equipment and grant items: an in-kind bus donation for use in large incidents, training for fireboat operations, a $43,471 crime-scene mapping camera grant, a $1,000,000 bond request to replace car radios and a $32,550 specialized crash-data contract.
Fire and police officials presented a set of public-safety equipment requests and grant acceptances for council consideration, including an in-kind bus donation, training for a fireboat program, a grant to purchase a crime-scene mapping camera and a bond request to replace in-vehicle police radios.
Dan Downs, First Deputy Chief of Fire, said the Syracuse Fire Department would accept an in-kind donation of a bus from the CNY Regional Transit Authority for use at large-scale incidents and extreme weather events to provide climate control for victims and personnel. On a separate item, staff presented a sole-source training agreement with a national training organization to certify personnel for firefighting and rescue operations from a fireboat in the harbor.
Deputy Chief of Police Richoff described a New York State Division of Criminal Justice Services grant of up to $43,471 to purchase an upgraded total station (described in the meeting as a camera-on-a-stick) for the crime-scene unit; no local match is required for that grant. Police also presented an interstate traffic-safety committee grant for overtime and local match for traffic enforcement and a grant to fund countywide advertising and outreach that the Syracuse Police Department now administers on behalf of the county.
The police department asked council to authorize bonds not to exceed $1,000,000 for its 24/25 radio replacement program; staff said the request would buy approximately 300 car radios at roughly $3,500 each and that portable radios had been replaced last year. A separate item sought a waiver and an approximately $32,550 contract for Bosch Crash Data retrieval services to obtain event data recorders after serious crashes; staff said that vendor is the only provider for certain vehicles.
No recorded votes appear in the transcript excerpt; councilors asked clarifying questions about equipment life, vehicle counts and contract periods, and staff said many items are grant-funded or do not require a local match.
