01/15/2020 CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM Minutes

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*APPROVED 3-2-2020* Capital Improvement Program Committee Minutes January 15, 2020 APPOINTMENTS& HEARINGS Fire Department FY2021 CIP Request: $515,000 Fire Chief Thomas Rullo presented a budget of capital requests for fiscal year 2021, there are no prior year obligations for the Fire Department in the CIP. Ballistic Protective PPE Total Funds: $40,000 Chief Rullo and Deputy Chief John Phelan presented a plan for the Fire Department to obtain "Ballistic Protective PPE"Gear for the Mashpee Fire Department to be used to protect fire fighters that are engaged in "active threat"situations. Generally, the fire staff goes in after the police has cleared the threat to treat victims. It is different than the protective gear worn by police officers, but it includes a vest with "plates" on the front and back and Kevlar on the sides, specialty eyewear too. This proposal would buy the gear for 18 members "stem to stern"and comes with a 10-year warranty and the gear would be retired when the warranty expires. Mr. Collins stated that there is more of need nowadays for this type of gear for fire fighters. Mr. Gottlieb asked if everyone would have this gear to which the Chief replied that the department would buy an assortment of sizes to cover the staff on each shift. Mr. Sarno asked if this proposal was for the same gear that Falmouth has to which Deputy Chief Phelan said yes. Mr. Gasior asked if the vendor is on the state bid list and Chief Rullo confirmed they are. Mobile & Portable Radio Replacement Total Funds:$400,000 Chief Rullo stated that this request is for twenty-one (21)mobile and forty-eight(48)portable digital radios, and have two (2) additional in truck repeaters as the Commonwealth is expected to replace all radios to a digital matrix soon and the current analog radios will no longer function once the digital system is enabled. Chief Rullo also said that he has been buying radios over the past few years that can be converted to digital from analog for a small (approx.. $150) programming fee. Mr. Collins asked why the need for forty-eight radios when the Department only has thirty-six employees, Chief Rullo answered that spares are needed. Deputy Chief Phelan then stated that he had been to a presentation today (1-15-20) that let departments know that there is one hundred and twenty-five million dollars available in grants to outfit departments across the state. The new radios will cost only $525 each ($570 fqr the mobile units), which is substantially less than the original CIP proposal to which Mr. Gottlieb stated this will cut over $200,000 from this right away; Mr. Collins said that the Department currently owns eighteen digital capable radios so why so many more are being requested? Lots of spare radios? The last few years the Town has been buying new digital capable radios at over five thousand dollars each and he asked if these would now not be used? To which Chief Rullo answered that they can be reprogrammed. Mr. Collins then said that the department only needs thirty radios at$525 each, plus repeaters. Mr. Gottlieb asked if this new grant had limits to which Deputy Chief Phelan said it expires in three years. At this point Mr. Collins said that due to all of this new information, this proposal should be completely reworked and brought to the next CIP meeting. 3