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EVENING.WELCOME TO THE EMERGENCY COMMUNICATIONS DISTRICT FOR MONDAY, NOVEMBER 13TH, 2023.
LET THE RECORD REFLECT THAT ALL COMMISSIONERS ARE HERE.
DO I HAVE A MOTION TO APPROVE THE MINUTES FROM OUR LAST MEETING FROM SEPTEMBER 11TH? MOVE TO APPROVE PRIMARY.
SECOND PRIMARY MOTION BY COMMISSIONER MCMILLAN.
SECOND BY COMMISSIONER SPEARS.
ALL IN FAVOR SIGNIFY BY SAYING AYE.
OPPOSED? ABSTENTIONS PASSES UNANIMOUSLY.
COMMENTS FROM, UH, FROM CITIZENS.
UH, WE HAVE A, UH, ROBUST CROWD THIS EVENING.
UH, DO, DO, UM, UH, EITHER OF YOU, YOUR CITIZENS, UM, MAYBE NOT OF, UH, OF THE CITY, BUT, UM, UH, EITHER ONE OF YOU, UH, WOULD LIKE TO, UH, MAKE COMMENTS.
UH, WITH THAT, WE'LL CLOSE, UH, COMMENTS FROM CITIZENS, UH, AND WE'LL DO, UM, UH, OUR REPORTS.
KIRK, UH, FINANCIAL REPORT FOR THE, FOR THE BOARD.
UH, YOU HAVE THAT THROUGH THE FIRST QUARTER THROUGH THE END OF SEPTEMBER IN YOUR PACKET THERE.
UH, YEAR TO DATE, REVENUES ARE AHEAD OF PACE AT 46% OF THE BUDGET, $836,000.
UM, THE CITY'S OPERATING SUBSIDY ALL GOES IN AT ONCE, SO THAT KIND OF ARTIFICIALLY INFLATES THAT YEAR TO DATE NUMBER IN TERMS OF PACE.
ALSO, WE HAVE, UH, A TRANSFER FROM THE CAPITAL PROJECTS FUND BACK TO THE 9 1 1 DISTRICT FOR SOME UNUSED FUNDS FOR SOFTWARE CAD SOFTWARE FROM A FEW YEARS AGO.
THAT IS FINALLY PROJECTS CLOSED OUT.
SO THAT MONEY CAME BACK AND THAT KIND OF ADDS TO THAT TOO.
EXPENDITURES ARE TRACKING, UM, AT 27%, $495,000.
SO KIND OF ON TRACK THERE, AGAIN, IN EXPENDITURES.
SEVERAL OF THE MAJOR SOFTWARE SUBSCRIPTIONS ALL HAPPEN AT ONCE, SO THAT KIND OF OVER INFLATES EXPENDITURES YEAR TO DATE ALSO.
BUT OTHERWISE, UH, EVERYTHING IS TRACKING ACCORDING TO, TO PLAN.
I'LL BE GLAD TO ANSWER ANY QUESTION THEN.
ANYONE HAVE ANY QUESTIONS OF KIRK OR KAREN? VERY GOOD.
HOW ABOUT A STATUS REPORT? UH, FROM, UH, OUR ECD SUPERVISOR? KATHLEEN, GOOD EVENING MAYOR, VICE MAYOR AND COMMISSIONERS.
UM, I WANNA START OFF BY TALKING ABOUT OUR STAFFING.
AND UNFORTUNATELY WE'RE IN A, A LULL HERE.
WE HAD TWO, UH, DISPATCHERS THAT SUBMITTED THEIR RESIGNATIONS.
UM, DURING THIS QUARTER, UH, WE HAVE ONE DISPATCHER IN TRAINING AND UH, WE HAVE OFFERED A JOB TO, UM, TWO DISPATCHERS WITH PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE, WHICH I'M HAPPY TO SAY ONE FROM CALIFORNIA.
I DON'T KNOW ABOUT THOSE DOOR IN CALIFORNIANS THOUGH, BUT ANYWAY.
UM, AND THEN ONE FROM NEW YORK AND THEY'RE BOTH GONNA BE STARTING ON NOVEMBER 27TH.
UM, AND PART OF MY REASON FOR WANTING TO START OFF BY TALKING ABOUT STAFFING IS THAT THE STAFFING THAT WE HAVE, I AM SO PROUD OF THESE GUYS BECAUSE THEY HAVE STOPPED, I MEAN, THEY STOOD UP TO THE PLATE.
THERE'S A LOT OF OVERTIME, AS YOU CAN IMAGINE.
I MEAN, WE'RE BUDGETED FOR 12 DISPATCHERS AND RIGHT NOW, ESSENTIALLY WE HAVE NINE BECAUSE WE HAVE ONE IN TRAINING AND EVERYBODY HAS JUST STOOD UP TO THE PLATE AND WE'RE WORKING SO MUCH OVERTIME.
UM, SO I APPRECIATE THE FACT THAT THEY'RE WILLING TO HELP OUT AND THEY UNDERSTAND THE NEED AND HOPEFULLY THIS IS SHORT TERM.
UM, AND WITH THAT, I THOUGHT THAT I WANTED TO REITERATE SOME THINGS THAT I HAD ALREADY PUT INTO THE WRITTEN, UM, REPORT THAT YOU RECEIVED.
SOME OF THE PRAISES THAT OUR DISPATCHERS GOT THIS QUARTER, UM, ONE OF THEM IS THAT WE HAD TWO PRETTY SIGNIFICANT AUDITS THIS QUARTER.
ONE, I THINK I MENTIONED IT AT THE LAST MEETING, WAS THAT WE HAD HAD AN FBI AUDIT AND WE HAD ATBI AUDIT SHORTLY AFTER THAT.
AND, UH, BECAUSE OF THE DILIGENCE THAT OUR, UH, LEAD STAFF, JASON BROWN AND LAUREL KAZINSKI DO WITH OUR NCIC ENTRIES AND MAKING SURE ALL POLICIES ARE ADHERED TO, WE GOT GLOWING REMARKS ON OUR, UM, ON OUR AUDIT.
SO WE WERE IN COMPLIANCE, WHICH IS A BIG DEAL THE WHOLE TIME I'VE BEEN AT BRENTWOOD.
WE'VE NEVER HAD AN FBI AUDIT BEFORE, SO THAT WAS A BIG DEAL.
SO I WAS REALLY HAPPY ABOUT THAT.
UM, ALSO, UM, JACKIE JACKSON, WHO IS, UH, HE JUST RECEIVED HIS AWARD FOR 25 YEARS OF SERVICE.
HE, UM, WAS SAT ON THE COMMITTEE FOR THE ACO CONFERENCE THAT WAS HELD IN NASHVILLE THIS YEAR.
IT WAS A, A WEEK LONG, I'M SURE YOU'VE ALL BEEN TO CONFERENCES, SO YOU CAN ONLY IMAGINE WHAT PREPARING FOR A CONFERENCE LIKE THAT IS LIKE.
UM, SO HE SPENT A LOT OF TIME HELPING TO PREPARE FOR THAT.
ACTUALLY HE STARTED LAST YEAR ON THE COMMITTEE, SO FOR HIM TO REPRESENT TENNESSEE AND OUR DEPARTMENT, AND WE GOT TO SHOW OFF OUR DEPARTMENT WITH ABOUT 50 MEMBERS FROM, IT'S AN INTERNATIONAL COMMITTEE, SO WE GOT TO, UH, SHOW OFF OUR, OUR CENTER, WHICH IS GORGEOUS.
UM, RIGHT NOW, ESPECIALLY THIS TIME OF YEAR.
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FABULOUS LOOKING OUT THE WINDOWS THERE.UM, SO I WANTED TO, UH, THANK THEM FOR WHAT THEY DO.
AND ALSO, UM, DISPATCHER MCKAYLA LECHNER, UM, BECAME A COMMUNICATIONS TRAINING OFFICER AND SHE'S DEFINITELY, SHE AND AMINA BEARD, UM, HAVE DEFINITELY HAD THEIR HANDS FULL WITH NEW TRAINEES.
AND, UH, SHE RECEIVED THE, UH, DISPATCHER OF THE YEAR AT THE ROTARY CLUB THIS YEAR.
SO JUST A LITTLE SHOUT OUT TO THEM AND A THANK YOU FOR WHAT THEY DO.
UM, OTHER THAN THAT, I DON'T HAVE ANYTHING ELSE TO SHARE WITH YOU.
YEAH, WE WERE GONNA MENTION THAT, UH, JACKIE WAS, UH, SELECTED CHAIR OF THAT COMMITTEE.
HE WAS BASED ON ALL THAT PRESENTATION YES.
HE WAS SELECTED THAT THAT'S FANTASTIC.
SO I WAS REALLY PROUD OF HIM BECAUSE THAT'S, THAT'S ALL A HUGE UNDERTAKING.
AND, UH, IN ADDITION TO WORKING, YOU KNOW, HE TOOK THAT ON TOO.
SO IT WAS, I WAS VERY PROUD OF HIM.
IT HIS A REFLECTION OF GREAT LEADERSHIP AND THANK YOU FOR LEADING THAT TEAM AND PUTTING HIM IN A POSITION TO DO THAT SORT OF STUFF.
KATHLEEN, THE TWO THAT RESIGNED, ARE THEY PURSUING AT ANOTHER ORGANIZATION? ARE THEY GETTING OUTTA THE BUSINESS OR JUST, JUST WONDERING WHAT'S GOING ON WITH THE TWO THAT LEFT? SO, YES SIR.
SO ONE OF 'EM, I'M NOT REALLY SURE WHAT ENDED UP HAPPENING WITH HER.
UM, SHE WAS IN TRAINING AND, UH, SUBMITTED HER RESIGNATION DURING TRAINING.
SO I'M NOT SURE WHAT, WHAT AVENUE SHE PURSUED.
UM, I KNOW SHE WAS IN THE EMS FIELD AS WELL, SO I DON'T KNOW IF SHE CONTINUED DOING THAT.
UM, AND THEN THE OTHER ONE THAT LEFT WENT INTO THE PRIVATE SECTOR WORKING MONDAY THROUGH FRIDAY WITH WEEKENDS OFF AND HE CAN BE AT HOME WITH HIS WIFE.
SHE WAS A FORMER DISPATCHER AND I SAID, DO YOU THINK SHE MIGHT WANNA WORK HERE? AND HE SAID, NO, NO, NO, NO, SHE DOESN'T WANNA BE A DISPATCHER ANYMORE.
UH, BUT ANYWAY, ALL KIDDING ASIDE, HE'S ACTUALLY HAD OFFERED TO HELP OUT, UH, LIKE ON A PER DIEM TYPE SITUATION.
SO WE REALLY HA, BECAUSE OF THE OVERTIME GETTING PICKED UP BY EVERYBODY ELSE, THERE HASN'T BEEN A LOT FOR HIM, BUT HE'S DEFINITELY, UH, WILLING TO HELP OUT IN THAT ASPECT.
AND I'VE ACTUALLY REACHED OUT TO A COUPLE OF OUR FORMER DISPATCHERS, UM, TO SEE IF THEY WOULD BE INTERESTED IN HELPING OUT ON A PER DIEM BASIS.
AND, UH, ONE OF 'EM IS UNABLE TO JUST KIDS, THAT TYPE OF THING AND JOB.
AND THE OTHER ONE WORKS FOR TBI, SO SHE HAS TO GET APPROVAL FROM HER DIRECTOR TO BE ABLE TO DO THAT.
SO JUST HEARING WHAT YOU SAID ABOUT THEM AND ABOUT YOUR PLAN, THAT'S A GOOD LEADER.
WELL, I DON'T KNOW MUCH ABOUT THAT, BUT
IF YOU DON'T HAVE ANY OTHER QUESTIONS, YOU'RE GOOD.
UH, UNDER NEW BUSINESS, UH, THIS, UM, BRENTWOOD EMERGENCY COMMUNICATIONS DISTRICT, UH, QUARTERLY MEETING, UH, HAS BEEN FULFILLED BY US, UH, COMING, UH, TOGETHER THIS EVENING.
UH, ANY OTHER NEW BUSINESS, UH, BEFORE THIS BOARD THIS EVENING? HEARING NONE MOVE OR ADJOURN? THANK YOU.