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2005 Technology Grant Program, Federal Earmark (B)
This item requests the City Commission approval for the proposed use of the $123,330 2005 Technology Grant Program, Federal Earmark funds.
Explanation
The City of Gainesville was awarded a Federal Earmark of $246,661 from the COPS Law Enforcement Technology Grant award. The City of Gainesville has received $123,330 of the funding from this grant. By Memorandum of Understanding between the City and the Alachua County Sheriff's Office, executed on May 26, 2005, the Alachua County Sheriff's Office will receive $123,331 to fund the Sheriff's Geographic Information System. The Federal Earmark Grant approved for the continuing efforts of the Gainesville Police Department to increase the efficiency of its police officers and police service technicians in the performance of their duties to the citizens of Gainesville through the use of technology equipment. The Gainesville Police Department proposes to utilize the funds received under this grant to purchase mobile printers, mobile printer equipment, and high speed wireless access network interface cards.
Mobile printers and the supporting printer equipment will give police officers and police service technicians the ability to print certain affidavits, forms, and reports in the field from their police vehicles that currently require them to drive to the Gainesville Police Department headquarters to print or hand-write on a pre-printed form. This will allow for additional information to be captured electronically in the recently implemented Records Management Database where the information can be more easily used for data analysis purposes.
Wi-Fi, or 802.11a/b/g, high speed wireless access network interface cards will be used by police officers and police service technicians in their City-issued laptops. The high speed cards will give them access to the City of Gainesville's network directly through the current wireless access points located at ...
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