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Police outline $8M CAD modernization as city staff outline 2026 budget timing; Reworld waste-agreement increase noted

Newark Municipal Council · December 16, 2025
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Deputy Police Director Leonardo Carrillo outlined an $8 million plan to modernize Newark’s CAD system plus a $1.2 million legacy-data migration; Business Administrator Eric Pennington said departmental budget templates are due and projected full budget delivery is likely in March or April. Pennington also described an added-starter host-municipality agreement with Reworld (formerly Covanta) raising the host fee from $3.5M to $4.2M.

Deputy Police Director Leonardo Carrillo told the council the city plans to replace a legacy computer-aided dispatch (CAD) system with a new web-based platform. “The $8,000,000 purchase is gonna be spread out over a number of years and it's to modernize our current CAD system,” Carrillo said. He added a separate $1,200,000 item will be used to migrate and make legacy data searchable rather than force all…

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