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ADJOURNED MEETING
APRIL 2, 2002 - 7:30 A.M.
POLICE STATION /LEGAL CENTER - 200 S. 3 RD STREET
2 ND FLOOR TRAINING ROOM
1. ROLL CALL
Present:
Council: Mayor Mary Place, presiding, Council Members Clarence Barnett,
Lynn Buchanan, Paul George, Larry Mattson, and John Puccinelli
Staff: Dick Zais, City Manager; Ray Paolella, City Attorney; Rita Anson,
Director of Finance and Budget; Don Blesio, Police Chief; Al
Gillespie, Fire Chief; Bill Cook, Director of Economic and
Community Development, Rick Pettyjohn, Information Systems
Manager; Tom Sellsted, Supervising Senior Analyst; Wayne
Wantland, Public Safety Communications Manager; Kay Adams,
City Engineer; Cindy Epperson, Accounting Manager, Pete Hobbs,
Acting Customer Services Manager; Richard Wonner, Fleet
Manager, Bob Desgrosellier, Senior Engineer; and City Clerk
Roberts
Absent: Council Member Bernard Sims (excused)
2. PRESENTATION AND DEMONSTRATION FROM INFORMATION SYSTEMS
DIVISION ON GEOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION SYSTEM
Rick Pettyjohn commented on the Geographical Information System (GIS)
programs created by City staff, giving recognition to Corrine Choy, Tom Sellsted
and Jill Ballard. Tom Sellsted, using slides, gave information on what GIS is and
related that it allows us to pinpoint an address. This information is useful to
emergency responding units; however, Public Safety is not the only division using
GIS. GIS is used for parcel maps, boundary and geography mapping for zoning,
land use, re- districting Council positions, and utilities.
In addition to the GIS information on address location, the City utilizes an
Automated Vehicle Locator (AVL) on its vehicles, using Global Positioning, which
allows the Dispatcher to send the nearest unit to an emergency call. The AVL is a
simple application that retrieves all the vehicle location information in the field
(updating its information every ten seconds or so many feet traveled). Currently,
the City has close to 70 vehicles with AVL installed on them. A Computer Aided
Dispatch (CAD) program calculates the distance a vehicle has to travel to respond
to a call, processing the travel distance and other information such as street
closures, and provides route information. The map seen by the dispatchers shows
the vehicle location, color -coded to indicate whether the vehicle is out of service,
enroute to an emergency call, or is on patrol. The dispatch information is stored
for 65 days, which gives staff the ability to analyze the decision to send a vehicle
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to a certain call. This information is useful to justify why a particular ambulance
was dispatched to a call. The program will also allow us to map the route and
speeds when a police vehicle is in pursuit.
For the Fire Department, Mr. Sellsted advised Council that we have a program
that contains pre -fire plans which shows the building layout and gives contact
information. We also have a Fire View Application, which is used to analyze fire
station locations.
Following the railroad grade separation demonstration, Wayne Wantland was able
to bring up the real -time display of the AVL program, showing Council what the
dispatchers are viewing. He explained some of the movements of the vehicles,
noting which were police or fire by the color on the screen. He was also able to
access a list of calls that displayed the time of call and which vehicle was sent;
• one call took two - tenths of a second to calculate which was the best vehicle to
send.
3. SUPPLEMENTAL VIDEO DEMONSTRATION ON RAILROAD GRADE
SEPARATION PROJECT
Chris Wolcott, Berger ABAM, was available with the consultants from Transpo,
who were unable to attend the previous Study Session on March 19. He
introduced Tasha Atchinson and James Webb, who are here to demonstrate the
results of their study conducted over the past several months. They brought with
them a simulation model to demonstrate what happens to the traffic under
. different scenarios. The simulator showed what happens to the traffic when it
backs up due to train traffic crossing at Yakima Avenue, Lincoln Avenue`and B
Street. It takes about six minutes for a train to come through town and they
observed the traffic backing up. It takes about two minutes for the traffic to get
back to normal conditions on B Street and Lincoln Avenue. However, Yakima
Avenue takes even longer because it has the most traffic, is a two -way street, and
has more signals; causing traffic to take about four to five minutes to return to
normal. They projected the peak traffic out to the year 2030, increasing it by
about 50% and included future traffic improvements, to do a comparison model. In
the projection, we see that by 2030, the cars queues in a longer line on B Street
and Lincoln Avenue by about one -half to one block and on Yakima Avenue by an
extra two blocks.
She stated that they also looked at what happens if you grade separate at B
Street and Lincoln Avenue. The traffic moves through freely at the grade -
separated intersections; however, Yakima Avenue traffic is impeded. People will
use B and Lincoln more, somewhat decreasing the Yakima Avenue traffic.
Bob Desgrosellier invited Council to the Open House this Thursday. He advised
Council that notice of the Open House was sent to the businesses on B Street,
Lincoln Avenue and Yakima Avenue.
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4. ADJOURNMENT
The meeting adjourned at 9:02 a.m.
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CITY CLERK MARY PLACE, MAYOR
Minutes prepared by Karen Roberts. An audio and video tape of this meeting are available in the
City Clerk's Office
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