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dramatically in the 20 years since it was first installed at the 38 Lake Street facility. This furniture or console,
whatever we’d like to call it, is consistent with what the Police Department just put in and it’s somewhat
modular so that this is going to last us at least another 20 years and if for some reason we have to rearrange
the fire alarm office, the dispatch area, it will be relative easy.
Bill Mansfield
As the Assistant Chief has stated, we had placed money aside in the radio communications capital upgrade
project that was to basically replace the furniture both at police and fire — the console furniture. This console
furniture is used 24 hours a day/7 days a week/365 days a year is used by various people. The furniture is 20
years old. We just replaced the Police Department's furniture in the fall and now we’ve come around and it’s
time to replace the Fire Department’s furniture. As the Assistant Chief stated was the furniture other than
being old it was large and when it was initially built it was built for CRT monitors. It’s big. It’s bulky. It limited
both police and fire the ability to do much with the rooms and the furniture within the rooms and try to do
anything whatsoever. When we started getting new equipment in, basically stuff was sprawled all over the
place because we had no place to put the items. Superintendent Audet went out. Basically had the contractor
come in, look, review. They went out and they looked at different furniture from different locations and this
particular company offers GSA pricing which is Right Line. If this does get approved this evening, the furniture
should probably be shipped within a week and be ready to be installed over at fire alarm.
Mayor Donchess
Any questions? Comments?
Alderman O’Brien
Also on this | understand you just did the raised floor underneath fire alarm and that project is complete. So
you must have had to move out the old equipment. We're ready to go. This will be able to go right in relatively
shortly correct?
Assistant Fire Chief Rhodes
We do. Again thank you to this Committee and thank you to the full Board for approving that expenditure.
That was another 20 year old floor. That has been successfully removed and replace. The dispatch center
has been moved to the back room as a temporary measure. It’s kind of a contingency area should we ever
have a problem with the main equipment we can literally walk 20 steps to the back of the building and have
complete connectivity to where we’re at. Yes this is extremely timely.
Alderman Cookson
So | noticed as I’m looking at the diagrams that we are within the contract. It looks like you have the ability to
set up multi-monitors for five of them in a row within this space. Is that how the current setup is with the old
modular furniture that’s currently there?
Bill Mansfield
The furniture that was there you couldn’t really do an ergonomically correct set up because the monitors were
up high, low, and everywhere else. This allows everything to be on one space. They’re also same as the
Police Department, these are also electric so they can lift and go down depending on the person’s height to get
the proper ergonomics for the furniture and the employee.
Alderman Cookson
Wonderful. | Know that there are a lot of companies out there right now that are very concerned about
ergonomics. They have standing desks and such. Is this a standing desk? Can you actually...
