Police leadership asked the council to approve a 10-year rewrite of the city's contract with Axon to lock current pricing and add a modern records-management system (RMS), expanded body-camera features, and new drone and integration capabilities. Staff said the RMS billing would not begin until the product is implemented; they estimated RMS deployment could realistically occur in year three because county CAD replacement is an upstream dependency.

Mark Cheney (finance) and police staff estimated current technology spending at roughly $425,000–$500,000 per year plus about $166,000 for other legacy products (a combined roughly $600,000). The proposed contract was presented as "about $11,000,000 over 10 years," with modest year-1 increases (~$32,000) and larger increases forecast when the RMS is activated in year three. Cheney said consolidating legacy applications could save about $166,000 annually to offset new costs; staff also said they will aggressively pursue federal and state grants to reduce net cost.

Police presenters outlined new capabilities: automated body-camera translation (50 languages to start, broader language coverage planned), a performance/audit program to automate body-camera reviews, a My90 survey tied to 911 events, and a FUSIS fusion dashboard to ingest city and third-party video. They also described a drone-as-first-responder program with rooftop-mounted drones providing about a 2.5-mile radius and a roughly 1.5-minute response time downtown.

Chief/staff framed the package as efficiency and safety improvements that would free officers from administrative work (staff estimated a 40% reduction in report-writing time with a modern RMS) and provide better evidence for prosecutions. "The technology becomes a witness for us," a police leader said, citing an asserted drop in firearms-related incidents of over 40% in three years.

Next steps: staff asked the council to authorize the contract negotiation and to allow time for grant-seeking and coordination with county CAD replacement. No formal contract award vote took place at the work session.