Regional dispatch documents

Regional dispatch documents

Below are links to all of the documents I have been able to gather relating to the current Regional Dispatch proposal for Essex County.

This proposal would consolidate all dispatching activities for member communities and move them, both physically and managerially, to the Sheriff's office. Costs would be assessed back to member communities though cherry sheet assessments.

Document name	Description
SAIC report - November 2005	Earliest document on the topic.
SAIC Executive Summary Final - December 2005	Final report. In this document (page17), the participating communities have direct input into the Board of Directors. In the slides from the sheriff’s office (slide 42) the communities have to work through the sheriff’s office to get to the director.
NERAC Report - November 2006	Detailed study of base and mid-level build out costs
560CMR - Standards for enhanced 911	Massachusetts Regulation describing enhanced 911 requirements
Chapter 223 of the Acts of 2008	Most recent legislation restructuring the enhanced 911 surcharge and distribution
ECSD Regional Dispatch	Slides from the Sherriff’s office, presented in Danvers on March 21,2009
Summary of RECC Agreement Logic and Provisions – 4/22/2009	Latest version of the agreement. This is what communities are being asked to approve.
Grant Award Letter	Grant award letter with provision to reduce amount
Tom Dubas discussing backup facility	Mr. Tom Dubas describing a lie regarding a back up facility in Lackawanna County
*What should we do instead?*
Pod Concept	Strawman of an alternative plan – This is what we should be doing.
Danvers Dispatching Costs	What does a 9 person dispatch center cost?
Per dispatcher costs from NERAC report	What are we paying today for 103 dispatchers?
Dispatcher Build Out projection	What should a 40, 60, 80 person dispatch center costs and what will happen if we expand the Sheriff’s plan? This shows that a 40 person dispatch center should cost between $2.9 and $3.1M, yet the sheriff’s plan costs $5.1M before subsidy and $3.6M after. State of the art equipment should cost $2.8M for 16 seats, yet the sheriff’s plan cost ~$7M for 12-15 temporary seats.

The answer is REGIONALIZATION by building a plan that has communities working with communities and not CENTRALIZATION which puts all of this under one roof which is a bad idea regardless of where that roof is or who is running it.