HomeMy WebLinkAboutORDINANCE 2076-20051
Suggested by: Administration
City of Kenai
ORDINANCE N0.2076-2005
AN ORDINANCE OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF KENAI, ALASKA
INCREASING ESTIMATED REVENUES AND APPROPRIATIONS BY ~ 150,892 IN
THE SENIOR CENTER KITCHEN CAPITAL PROJECT FUND.
WHEREAS, the Senior Center kitchen is in need of renovation; and,
WHEREAS, the Rasmuson Foundation has provided a grant of ~ 140,892; and,
WHEREAS, the Senior Connection has provided funding of ~ 10,000; and,
WHEREAS, the Senior Citizen/Borough Grant Fund has sufficient fund balance
to finance the balance of the project if necessary.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
KENAI, ALASKA that estimated revenues and appropriations be increased as
follows:
Senior Center Kitchen Capital Project Fund
Increase Estimated Revenues:
Rasmuson Grant ~ 140,$92
Senior connection 10,000
150 892
Increase Appropriations:
Construction X50,892
PASSED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF KENAI, ALASKA, this 19th day of
January 2005.
PAT PORTER, MAYOR
ATTEST:
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Carol L. Freas, City Clerk
Approved by Finance:
(12/28/2004) hl
Introduced: January 5, 2005
Adopted: January 19, 2005
Effective: January 19, 2005
107 SOUTH WILLOW STREET KENAI, AK 99611
Telephone (907) 283-7879
Fax (907) 283-2267
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T0: Linda Snow
City Manager
THRU: huck Kopp
hief of Police
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FROM: ee Gattenby
Communications Supervisor
DATE: December 29, 2004
SUBJECT: Radio Combiner Memorandum for Record
Kenai Dispatch is a Primary e911 Public Safety Answering .Point (PSAP) that utilizes Motorola
equipment to transmit and receive radio traffic to and from field units and remote base stations.
Dispatch communicates over four main channels in the VHF s ectrum that include, Kenai
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Police, Kenai Fire, Public works and AST Simplex. The newer Motorola. Quantar® radios are
capable of transmitting over selectable frequencies and can broadcast and receive analog and
digital signals (which is compliant with the Alaska Land Mobile Radio system).
Currently, the Kenai communications system still uses outdated legacy radio combiner hardware
to band-pass four transmitter/receivers signals through two antennas. The hardware is
problematic for several reasons.
1. The legacy combiners are `fixed' frequency, and are not compatible with the multiple-
frequency selection capabilities. of the newer Quantar® system.
2. The band-pass capabilities of the legacy combiners are no longer filtering transmissions
cleanly. This is causing the radios to bleed over on to other frequencies when
transmitting; it reduces signal strength and clarity and will intermittently receive stray
transmission signals from FM through UHF -frequencies. --
3. The combiners are very old. Servicing. them is a challenge as no replacement parts are
made for them any more.
4. The, old combiner is causing feed back. problems that force us to use the `back-u ' olice
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transmitter. The police and fire radios have `backup' transmitters for use in case the
primary Quantar®radio/transmitters malfunction. The back-up transmitters are part of
the legacy hardware (over ten years old} that was retained as afail-safe, and were not
intended for primary use. The radio interference can be bad enough to interrupt
officer/despatch transmissions. Continued use of the legacy hardware (both„ transmitter
and combiners} constitutes an officer safety risk (due to reduced signal stren th, routine
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KENAI POLICE DEPARTMENT
feed-back and interrupts). The filtering capabilities of the combiners continue to degrade
and could completely fail at any time.
Updating the current combiner hardware to a new digital combiner would solve the bleed over
problems. Additionally, a new system would provide dispatch with the capability of switching
channels (thus giving Kenai the ability to contact other service units on their native frequencies
at a much higher transmission quality).
If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me.
/vlg
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