Finance Committee - 10/18/2017 Page 10
Mayor Donchess
This would be an emergency backup communications dispatch system both communities.
Mr. Mansfield
Correct.
Mayor Donchess
Do you think it would ever be practical or advantageous for there to be a consolidated police dispatch,
Manchester and Nashua, together, or a consolidated fire? Or, do you think that would not be practical and not
workable?
Mr. Mansfield
There’s been studies done on what your speaking of. | think with the size of our cities it would be really chaotic
to say the least. For the amount of calls that we handle, with the amount of calls that Manchester handles, it
would be chaotic. | don’t even know how you would do it unless you gave every dispatcher a separate area.
Then you’re not having the communication of dispatchers going back and forth. There’s a lot of issues with
doing that.
Mayor Donchess
So this consolidated system is simply if one of the dispatch systems fails, this would kind of be a band aid.
Mr. Mansfield
It would be a band aid until we could get that system back up.
Alderman O’Brien
Where it is going to be located in Manchester, is it going to be fairness? To kind of answer the Mayor’s
question earlier, we’re talking radios. We’re not talking the old system to which the fire boxes would ring into
our current fire alarms. To get that type of cabling all the way up to Manchester would be probably a fee.
Manchester will not be bringing their cabling system for their fire boxes and the like into the facility, so it would
be just like us in this regard.
Mr. Mansfield
Correct. There would be phone lines there. There would be no type of fire boxes or any other equipment other
than the radio communications program in the facility.
Alderman O’Brien
| used to remember that you could patch a particular city into our radio system.
Mr. Mansfield
Correct.
