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SPECIAL TOWN MEETING Page 1 Special Town Meeting Article 1.To see if the Town will vote is the core components of the police department's ability to to appropriate and transfer from the Medical Insurance process and store many thousands of documents each year Account,$9,600 to be distributed as follows: $8,000 to the that serve as the required reference for the police response to Medicare Account and$1,600 to the Group Insurance calls for service and criminal investigations. Secondly,we Account,or take any other action relating thereto. (Submitted would fully upgrade our in-car computer program,installing by the Treasurer) terminals in all marked cruisers and providing department investigative personnel with brief case units. This program Explanation: The amount for Medicare is due to the increase permits officers to complete reports while in their cruisers, in payroll,and the group insurance is due to the increase in thereby reducing significantly the amount of time lost when participants. officers must currently return to the police facility to complek necessary reports. This system also allows officers to Finance Committee recommends approval. independently obtain required criminal justice and registry of motor vehicle information from local,state,and national Special Town Heeling Article Z To see if the Town will vote computer systems without overburdening a limited to appropriate and transfer from available funds$1,084.02 to communications staff. Finally,the grant provides for the pay previous fiscal year unpaid bills as follows: acquisition of computerized photo-imaging equipment that Mashpee Public Schools Parent/ virtually replaces traditional photography in the police Teacher Organization$27.83 department. Use of computerized cameras streamlines the Bell Atlantic$48.60 booking process as well as crime scene photography. The Colonial Gas Company$407.47 purchase and use of the new technology as described will Cape Cod Rehabilitation$132.54 allow investigative personnel,police patrol officers,and Falmouth Hospital$460.00 supervisors to spend more time productively on other duties Upper Cape Ophthalmology$7.58 or community policing endeavors. or take any other action relating thereto. (Submitted by the Town Accountant) finance Committee recommends approval in the amount of $32,400. Explanation: This article is necessary to pay Fiscal Year 1997 bills received after the close of the fiscal year. Special Tawe Meeting Article S. To see if the Town will vof¢ to appropriate and transfer from available funds, $2,000 to lasnance Committee recommends approval. the Town Clerk Expense account,or take any other action relating thereto. (Submitted by the Town Clerk) Special Town Meeting Article 3. To see if the Town will vote to appropriate and transfer from available funds, $20,000 to Explanation:This money will be used to purchase 50 copies the Police Department Dispatcher Salary/Wage Account,or of the General Bylaws and 50 copies of the Zoning Bylaws take any other action relating thereto. (Submitted by Police books. Funds will be recovered through the sale of these ii Department) books. p Explanation: The monies requested in this article are needed Finance Committee recommends approval i( to fund unanticipated and unforeseen shortfalls due to the retirement of one dispatcher and the extraordinary use of sick Special Town Meeting Article 6 To see if the Town will vote leave by other dispatchers due to illness. to appropriate and transfer$15,000 from the Assessing Department's Salary/Wage Account to the Data Processing j Finance Committee recommends approval Computer Account,or take any other action relating thereto. (Submitted by the Assessing Department) Special Town Meeting Article 4. To see if the Town will vote to appropriate and transfer from available funds,$39,134 to Explanation: The purpose of this article is to provide funds the Police Computer Technology Account,or take any other to aid in upgrading the Assessing Department's computer action relating thereto. (Submitted by the Police Department) hardware and software. Explanation: The monies requested will serve as matching Yinance Committee recommends approval funds for a federal grant awarded to the police department in the amount of$97,199. The grant,under COPS MORE 96, will allow the police department to significantly upgrade its technology in three key areas. First,there will be a full upgrade of the dated network computer system,a system that