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HomeMy WebLinkAbout2007-03-05-10:00AM-WORKSHOPBRAZOS COUNTY 4 _ BRYAN,TEXAS NOTICE OF MEETING AND AGENDA BRAZOS COUNTY COMMISSIONERS COURT WORKSHOP SESSION THE COMMISSIONERS COURT OF BRAZOS COUNTY WILL MEET IN A WORKSHOP SESSION ON MONDAY 5 MARCH 2007 AT 10:00 A.M. IN THE COMMISSIONERS COURTROOM OF THE BRAZOS COUNTY COURTHOUSE, 300 E. 26 T" STREET, SUITE 115, BRYAN, TEXAS. 1. Call to Order 2. Discussion regarding staffing needs for the Brazos County Emergency Services District. 3. Adjourn The Brazos County Courthouse is wheelchair accessible. Handicap parking spaces are available. Any request for sign interpretive services must be made two business days before the meeting. To make arrangements, call (979) 361 -4102. Office of the County Judge • 300 East 26'" St. • Suite 114 • Bryan, Texas 77803 . Fax: (979) 361 -4503 vni AQ nnr_r i I of 19 COMMISSIONERS' COURT WORKSHOP SESSION March 5, 2007 The Commissioners' Court of Brazos County, Texas met in a Workshop Session in the Commissioners' Courtroom in the Courthouse in Bryan, Brazos County, Texas, beginning at 10:00 a.m. on Monday March 5, 2007, with the following members of the Court present: Randy Sims, County Judge, Presiding; Lloyd Wassermann, Commissioner of Precinct 1; Duane Peters, Commissioner of Precinct 2; Kenny Mallard, Commissioner of Precinct 3; Carey Cauley, Commissioner of Precinct 4; absent Karen McQueen, County Clerk. absent Attached is a list of the citizens and officials in attendance. Attached is a transcript of the meeting. Vol cl a Page 2of19 BRAZOS COUNTY COMMISSIONERS COURT Brazos County Emergency Services District Staffing March 5th, 2007 Tape starts mid - sentence. Sims: ...this workshop into session Monday the 5`h of March 2007 at 10:00 a.m. in the Commissioner's Courtroom, Brazos County Courthouse. I will call this to order and the first item on the agenda, second item is discussion regarding staffing needs for Brazos County Emergency Service District, or the 911 district. Betsy, if you will. Godwin: Yes sir. First of all, thank for taking the time to listen to what we have to say. What we are gong to discuss today is the radio position and staffing for the Brazos County 911. The first thing we would like to do is a brief overview of the District, the District overview of the mandated service that the 911 District is providing. We provide enhanced 911 services to all areas of Brazos County, 911 system maintenance and upgrades, 911 data base and call routing services. We also maintain wireless and third party data base service. We maintain the required traditional E911 and voiceover IP circuit. Additionally, we provide 911 public education and district wide training and we also prepare for and incorporate new and emerging technologies. Non mandated contractual services include call taking and dispatch services for Bryan Police Department, Bryan Fire Department, Bryan Animal Control, Brazos County Sheriffs Office, all of Brazos County Volunteer Fire Departments and all of Brazos County Constable Precincts. The purpose of this presentation is to discuss the need for an additional dispatch position and supporting personnel by reviewing the following data. We would like to review the population growth. We are going to analyze overall transfer calls for service. We're going to compare staffing levels with the dispatch center staffing, and discuss the impact of providing additional service. And, additionally, outline existing staffing levels and equipment requirements. As you can see by our graph here which we obtained from the Texas Association of Counties and also the Texas State Data Center, you can Vol a Page 3 3of19 see and accelerated growth rate; you can see that the blue is where we are up to now and the red is where we are looking at in 2015. All of the population growth affects the 911 calls for service for emergency and non - emergency situations. So you can see that we are growing, which I'm sure you knew that, but we thought we would kind of depict it out in graph form. We also provided a chart for the calls for service. The overall calls for service have increased at a very steady pace for many years. In 2004, you can see that we had 89,000 calls for service; in 2006, we're up to 112,000 calls for service. Along with the calls for service for increasing, also the staffing is increasing for those that we serve. Just a brief description here for the Bryan Police Department you can see that their staffing has increase at a steady incline. The fire department is pretty accelerated also. As the staffing increases for those that we service, the more radio transmission increase. The more self - initiated activity that they do, the more that the dispatch center has to provide. As you can see, from 2003 to 2007 we had a pretty steady, even staff until last year when we added three additional call takers. But for the past five years, we pretty much stayed at an even keel which is not good considering the people that we are serving are increasing their staffing. The impacts of additional services just recently are the Emergency Medical Dispatch which we finally have all of our personnel trained. We initiated that March I" and as of March I" to day's date at 8:30, we had 75 EMD calls that we received and provided pre - arrival instructions and information to. So with the Emergency Medical Dispatch, we are still at the flip card stage so we can't ... it's not computerized yet. We're hoping that by the end of May that we will be able to computerize it. That way when the calls come in, the dispatcher can click on the different icons and we'll be able to track the EMD calls as far as how long it takes to pre - arrival instructions. We'll be better able to have an analysis next year at this time as to the time that's spent on EMD. Also, technology with the Phase II Wireless has increased the workload for the communication center. What this means is we get a 911 call and if there is no voice on it, then we have to call back the number, look up where the call is. Obviously, that takes times. Though technology is great and we need technology, it also increases the workload in the dispatch center. Voles Page 4of19 Furthermore, the comprehensive warrant checks that the communication personnel do; they are checking Bryan Municipal Court, College Station Municipal Court, TCIC which is Texas Crime Information Center, NCIC which is the National Crime Information Center and DPS for every warrant check. This is also time consuming but it's a necessary thing that communication personnel do. Additionally, we're looking at voice over IP and next generation 911 coming to our County. We're not sure exactly when we're going to have to upgrade our equipment to provide video coming into the 911 center. So with that upcoming technology, we have to make sure that we have staff in order to provide the best quality service. Sims: Let me ask a question. Godwin: Yes sir. Sims: The three staff members that we hired this last year... Godwin: Yes sir. Sims: ...they weren't just strictly for EMDs were they? We have all of our people trained over there to handle EMD. Godwin: Absolutely. We have trained 47 people in EMD; which is counting College Station and A &M University. Sims: Could I ask you a question? Godwin: You sure can. Sims: Who picked up the tab for those three? Godwin: The district. Oh for the personnel? Sims: Yes. Godwin: For one of the dispatchers was covered by City of Bryan and the other two were covered by... Sims: By Brazos County. Godwin: ...by Brazos County. Sims: Ok. Vol a a Page 5 5of19 Mallard: You going to start doing video? Godwin: What they are talking about for next generation 911 to upgrade the services that they are looking at ... you know how you have a camera phone and people take pictures of scenes ... of taking that video and bringing it into the district. Mallard: Hm, ok. Godwin: As a matter of fact, the research project that we're working with A &M on already has that. And we tested it out where in the 911 center, you're on the phone with a caller and streaming video is coming in across the 911 screen. Now it's still... Mallard: You could help with, obviously, a medical injury or some sort. They can... Godwin: Burglaries in progress, bank robberies. You'll be able to see exactly what's going on as it's going on and be able to inform the personnel on the other side of the radios. And the research that we're doing right now with A &M and Virginia, they got the grant extended so it's going to get even more fast paced because they want to test all this out of the next generation 911. So I haven't heard anything since January about what they're testing right now but we'll be gearing that back up again. Mallard: They'll be beaming that to our wrist watch pretty soon. Godwin: I wouldn't be surprised; you know Dick Tracy and all that. I wouldn't be surprised if everybody's not going to have that kind of technology on hand. I mean five years ago we would have never thought a cell phone would be able to take pictures and send them through email. But that's where we're at. Mallard: Yeah. Godwin: And it's only going to get better. Technology is only going to get better and faster and we have to make sure we have the staff in order to accommodate the (overtalking). Sims: (inaudible) and we'll probably get sued for violation of somebody's privacy. Godwin: You know, it's funny you should mention that because the article that Walt Magnusson from A &M said... someone brought that up; you're Vol q R Page 6of19 going to have video coming into a dispatch center and it's going to have medical emergencies and people having babies and stuff ...what about the privacy, what about HIPPA? And he pretty much said, "Well you know, with technology, you can either use it and be enhanced by it or you can shy away from it and be afraid of everybody's rights." So I think, obviously just like all the telephone calls that are coming into our dispatch center where we are recording those, and we're keeping those as we're required to ... the same thing will happen with a video. We'll have to... Mallard: You can ask Karen McQueen about keeping up the numbers (inaudible). Sims: Having to redact numbers. Godwin: Yes. Yes. Sims: I'm sorry; I didn't mean to interrupt you. Godwin: Oh no, no, no, that's fine. So in summary, the increase in population, the increase in calls for service, the increase of field personnel and the complexity in the dispatch center ... we have do something now in order to make sure that we have the personnel and the equipment needed to keep up with everything. I can think of just one instance not too long ago when we had the power outage and the dispatch center was overwhelmed with calls for service. People were calling, obviously, to tell us they had no power ... but we had every dispatch station, every position was staffed with two people. One to answer the phone and one to answer the radio. And that happened only because our midnight crew came in when they saw there was an emergency. They all came in early and were able to keep up with the demand. Both the communication manager and myself were in there answering telephone calls. We have to make sure that we have someone there to answer the calls when they come in so we have to make sure we're properly staffed. What we did to prepare for this upcoming budget... there is a staffing formula that APCO Association of Public- Safety Communications Officials... it has a formula in order to figure out how many people you really need to have in your center to take care of the positions. According to formula, we have should have 37 communication specialist in there. We have 27. So, obviously, we can't hire ten people at one time, we have to gradually increase our staff. Vol qj, Page 7 7of19 For several reasons... we have to have a place to put them. We have to change up our radio positions in order to accommodate the extra personnel. As you can see on this layout, this is how it's laid out right now. The S.O. and the Constable... both of their radios are on that far left hand side, we have on dispatcher taking care of both the Sheriff's Office and the constables. We have a dispatcher taking care of the Bryan Fire Department and the Volunteer Fire Department. A call taker on the far right and a call taker on the far left and Bryan P. D. position one is handling all of the radio traffic for the Bryan Police Department. On the far top left, that's the secondary Bryan Police Department Radio Frequency. They generate a lot of radio traffic. On the far top right is Call Taker 3 position. That's the one we added last year to try to get some of the telephone calls answered so we could keep the radio positions from answering telephones. Obviously, we want to keep as much telephone traffic away from the radio operators so they can focus and take care of emergency calls coming. And you can barely see it but beside the Call Taker 3 position, that was a closet. We emptied the closet out for our tech. that we hired in January. And Patrick is still training him and we had to just kind of put forms in different place so we had a place to put him. And then, right beside his office is the communication supervisor's office. We have four communication supervisors and they all share that one little office there. And on the far left is the computer room. So that's the layout as it is now. Of course, you can't see the floor ... the original floor is in there and it's torn up and all the carpeting is coming out. We tried to depict that in the picture, but we couldn't demonstrate that. Mann: Betsy, before you go to the next slide... Vol 0101 Page ff i e 8U, Godwin: Yes? Mann: ...maybe this might be a good point and review and clarify for the Court your different funding sources and you dual function and the reason to separate those out and how call takers fall under that. Godwin: Yes, as a matter of fact, in the proposed eight position staffing, the Bryan Police Department has four communication specialists that they are paying for. In the secondary position they have another four dispatchers that they're funding. The Bryan Fire Department radio... we're looking at the Bryan Fire Department radio just being separate where they're not being shared with the volunteers. So the City of Bryan would take care of that also. The Sheriff's radio position... we're trying to separate that out so Brazos County would pick up that fee. Call taker position one ... that means four dispatchers... and .78% of that the City of Bryan will be covering and .22 will be taken care of by Brazos County. Same thing with the call taker position number two. And the non - emergency call taker position would be split 50 -50. And the Volunteer Fire Department and Constable radio position... that would also mean four people which is one position and Brazos County would cover that. So what that would do, as I said, you take the Sheriff's Office and you have one person monitoring all the radio traffic and dispatching all the calls and they can focus on the calls coming in and dispatch the calls coming out. And the same thing with the Bryan Fire Department; breaking out the volunteers from that radio position. All of the increases in calls for service being managed more expediently by breaking out the two positions. Sims: You don't have enough room for ten more. Godwin: Well we have been pondering that. When Chuck and Michelle leave we have a big office that we'll be able to expand out in. And also the training room where we have all of our meetings and training, we could break part of that out for call takers in the future. Or in the future, move to a bigger building. So moving is something that I know we'll have to do eventually. I'm not looking forward to moving all those radios and all that computer stuff but I think within ten years we will perhaps outgrow that. Sims: Are we looking to move anyway? Godwin: No. I know in staff meetings we have talked about it. We've discussed the transition... as the need for more people is evident, how we can Vol q,� Page q 9of19 manage to hire them and train them and house them is what we're faced with. Sims: Bottom line, what are you asking for this next budget year as far as staff is concerned from Brazos County. I don't know whether you have had this conversation with the Police Department or not. Godwin: We meet monthly with our PSAC committee who are here to support us in our discussion. They are supporting this radio position which means buying the radio position, buying the equipment which is $85,000.00 and the furniture which we're projecting to be $12,000.00 and four personnel... four communication specialists which is about a $112,000.00. And breaking that out just for this project... that's not talking about the office supplies and that sort of stuff ...it looks like abut $62,500.00 that the City of Bryan is going to have increase and Brazos County will have to increase about 168,000.00. Sims: I knew that some way Bryan was going to do that to us. Scheets: It's all Jim's idea. Sims: Give me that one more time. Bryan will have to pay $65,000.00? Wassermann: $62500.00 Godwin: About $63,000 and with the radio equipment furniture and personnel, it's about $168,000.00 give or take. Like I said we haven't... that's just for the personnel part. Sims: And the County will...? Godwin: Yeah, the County would have to fund the furniture and the radio equipment and like I said, about $67,000.00 for the personnel. Sims: For a total of what? Godwin: Well, just for this project, it looks like it's about $167,000.00. Sims: Oh. Ok. Is that $167,000.00 for both entities? Godwin: No, just for Brazos County. The $62,000.00 is for Bryan. Sims: Ok. Godwin: That would increase Bryan's portion. Vol qA Page !D 10 of 19 Sims: Ok. Godwin: Since we have to do the same presentation ... we don't have to ... we're doing this for information so people know where we're going and kind of get ahead of the curve ball. We're also doing a workshop for the City Council next week. That's why we have all this data in one power point. Obviously, in our five year plan, we had already talked about having another radio position. We didn't want to wait until half way through the year and say, "Oh, by the way, this is where we're going. ", since we already knew that we had investigated it, we had researched it and our PSAC Committee is supporting it because they know they need the correct staffing in order to get the calls for service handled. Mallard: I guess most of this is based on calls ... how many times the dispatcher is making contact with the units. Godwin: Right. Mallard: On the computer screens in the cars you have, `Out of service. 10 -8. On the scene.'... all of that. Do you utilize those buttons? Does that eliminate a call? Godwin: It reduces the radio transmission that the dispatcher is answering which keeps the airwave clear for emergencies. But we did some research on `Push To Talk' just for the Sheriff's office for five months. And from last year to this year there were a thousand more radio transmissions a month. So either ... well the calls for service for the Sheriff's office has gone up 10% in one year. Their self - initiated activity has also increased. Which means that they're contacting more bad guys on the street and handling more... checking more suspicious vehicles and that sort of stuff. So the MDCs certainly help as far as reducing the radio traffic that the dispatcher is listening to and keeping the airwave clear. But still, 1,000 a calls a month increase is... Mallard: Well I'm not saying it's going to get less if they did that... Godwin: Right. Mallard: ...but maybe it would reduce that so does that equate to saving cost or saving calls so therefore you are saving cost? I don't know. Godwin: Yes. Yes. Vol qd, Page II 11 of 19 Mallard: I mean that's why I was wondering is there a direct correlation if we utilize the computer screen. I know some officers don't use it at all and others use it. So I didn't know ... does it make a difference on the dollar side so maybe they would want to request that more ... that the officers utilize the MDTs, I guess, in stead of keying up the radio. Godwin: Right. Right. Yes, if the calls for service were not increased at such a rapid pace, I would say that the MDCs are already saving at least one position because between the Bryan Police Department and the S.O.. As a matter of fact, as we meet, we talk about having MDCs in animal control vehicles so that takes that radio traffic off of the dispatcher and off of the radios. I think we are utilizing our technology as best we can but we are also talking to our staff ..I know Bryan Police Department had a couple of different in- services so they could get their officers to use the MDCs more. So absolutely, the more... Mallard: I'm not saying ... I think the process is appropriate for where they're going to have to go because we have to go up another level... Godwin: Right. Mallard: ...and this is the way to get it done. That may be one way to at least assist the dispatcher. I mean it's coming up to their screen and they still have to something on that screen to effect that ... I don't know, maybe it's just one touch with a keystroke as opposed to having to talk. Godwin: Yeah. The more the field unit does out in the field, the less work is being done inside the dispatch office. Absolutely. Mann: What she is saying, Commissioners, is correct but what you have to remember is the graphs that she put up at the first of the presentations ... all the things that drive her in or her role in all of this has increased where her staff hasn't increased... Mallard: Right. And I know this is... Mann: ...increase of the officers out there and the population that's calling in out there has been greater than what she has so we probably don't really see the full benefit of the technologies savings there that you would if everything was closer to what it should be. Godwin: I think for comparison, what I tried to do in the research trying to compare ourself to College Station because they're out sister city and their population is similar to ours. They have a 182 that they are Vol �a _ Page / A 12 of 19 supporting. Fire Department personnel, EMS, Police personnel ... we have 406. And their budget is not that much different than our budget. And that was last year when we started really digging deep into our budget and pulling everything apart in the comparison part. Obviously, we aren't College Station and our calls for service are different than theirs, but just weighing each part... Sims: Why such a discrepancy between the two? Godwin: Well, Brazos County has for the Consolidated Dispatch Center, we're dispatching for all the volunteer fire departments and all of the whole County. Sims: Ok. Godwin: So, obviously, we have more space to cover than College Station but their personnel... their number of dispatchers aren't that much less than ours. Mallard: We need College Station to hurry up and annex on that territory out there. Godwin: Well in 2005, College Station had about 16,000 for the year. 16,000 911 calls. Our Consolidated Dispatch Center had 77,000. So that's the difference in call volume between the two entities. It's quite significant. Like I said, we can't hire 10 people at one time ... we have no place to put them for one thing ... but we do need to keep a steady growth because we have to have someone there to answer the phones and take care of the calls as they come in. So this is how ... we're following our five year plan and we thought it would behoove us to let everybody know where we're going and why we're going there. Sims: Our biggest problem as you all well know; you have seen these tax freezes and tax revenue caps and appraisal caps and this type of thing. Number one, I think for the most part the legislature sits over there in a vacuum and they don't understand what we're faced with and this gentleman that's running around with these slips of paper saying, "Hey let's get it on the ballot. ", and all this good stuff. And I've always made the comment, I said, "When you call 911 and there and nobody answers and there is no dispatch up there... what are you going to do folks ?" Godwin: Exactly. Vol as Page 13 13 of 19 Sims: I said, you know, "It's gotta be paid for." Well they got other things they want to cut. Everybody's got their own pet deal out there and it just really gets ludicrous what these guys are doing. A good letter to the Editor talking about, "We just don't need a tax freeze." Said, "These older people have got it made now with the exemptions that we already provide." And I hope the cities vote that down. We couldn't get it done but I hope you guys can get it voted down because I'm gonna tell you what, that's bad policy. Bad policy. I'm sorry, I didn't mean to get carried away, but I mean, you know, we ... the administrative bodies, are looking at tax freezes and revenue caps and appraisal caps and you name it. Godwin: Right. Sims: And again, as I say, I think the legislature tends to operate in a vacuum out there. They are not real life yet. Godwin: Yeah. And on that same line I know some of the bigger 911 centers have an automated voice answering when they put calls on queue and say, "All of the operators are busy, please hold. The next available operator will be with... ", and I don't want to go there. I don't want to see Brazos County having to be in a queue while a medical or fire or police emergency is coming in because we don't have... Sims: Doesn't give our citizens the warm fuzzies, does it? Godwin: No. No. And I'm not wanting to go there. Mallard: One phone you don't want a busy signal on. Godwin: You don't want a busy signal on 911, no. No. So you have to keep up with the times and keep up with the technology by being proactive and I think that's where we're going. Sims: Talk to me one more time. You know, budget time is not all that far away. Godwin: No, we're working... Sims: What are you going to be requesting from us at budget time? How many people and what expense for equipment? Godwin: It's looking like we're going to ask for four more personnel and... Vol a Page 14 Sims: Godwin: Sims: Godwin: Mallard: Godwin: Sims: 14 of 19 Now that's just from Brazos County? Well, Brazos County, yes. Let's share that with the City of Bryan now. Well we are sharing $62,000.00 increase for Bryan and $66,000.00, we'll just $67,000.00 for Brazos County. And then the hundred... It's $167,000.00. Well, no, it's getting to that. No a hundred thousand for... Godwin: A hundred thousand for the radio and furniture. As a matter of fact I just called on Thursday for Motorola and got the estimate. Obviously, it's not written in stone but it's an estimate. And like I said, we haven't dug deep into the other things that go along with hiring people, office supplies, and training and that sort of stuff. As a matter of fact, for the EMD project, I met with Chief Donaho and kind of outlined the next couple of years what that is going to cost. Because as you train people it's $270.00 per person to train for EMD and that's at our discount rate because we train so many people at one time. Every two years they have to be recertified. Of course, City of Bryan is taking all... Sims: Is that another $270.00? Godwin: No. No. Sims: Recertification? Godwin: No. $45.00. Just $45.00. Sims: No.Ok. Godwin: But like I said, the City of Bryan is picking all that up because it's directly related to medical. But as we hire more people we obviously want to keep them trained and we decided that we're going to have a line item just for Emergency Medial Dispatch so we can track what this enhanced process is going to cost. Hopefully next year if we have it all computerized, I'll be able to say, "Each call for service takes 4.5 Vol qd1 Page 16 15 of 19 minutes... ", or ever how long it takes so we can have a better idea of the impact it has in the center. As it is now, I don't want to sit there with a stopwatch and say, "Ok, how long is it taking to provide these instructions." So. Mann: Fifty to a hundred thousand, for equipment, that's a one time cost? Godwin: Yes. Mann: No maintenance fees or anything? Godwin: No, it's radio equipment and a call taking position. It's a one time deal. It's not like a car, they don't have to keep servicing or anything. Thank God. Any other questions? You guys have anything you need to add? Sims: Kenny? Mann: I just want to let the court know that (inaudible) Safety Advisory Committee Betsy Patrick; they keep us up to speed on what all is going on and they all have done a very good job at maximizing the resources that they have since she came to the position when Pat was interim, they went in there and reworked everything on their staffing to try and get the most that they can out of what they have. And I think that she's maximized the resources that she has based on what I've seen and she's done a really good job at it. Moral over there is better than it ever had been. If College Station would just quit hiring her dispatchers. Sims: Well for every dispatcher they hire away from us they got to take X number of thousand square acres of ground out there. Annex it. McCollum: Looks like we have that trend going too. Sims: I believe that's right Scott. Godwin: Yeah. Sims: Goodjob. Godwin: Thanks. Sims: Ok. Any other questions? Vol A Page Ae 16 of 19 Godwin: Thank you for your time. Sims: Well that prepares us; gives us an idea of what is going to be requested of us at budget time. We'll put this in the file and, of course, as we get closer, we'll have you over to present that case again. Godwin: Yes. Sims: You know, really and truly, I would certainly have liked to have news media but the news media tends to not show up when we've got things that are important to the citizens of Brazos County. And we certainly, at budget time want to make sure that we have them in hand when we're talking about this because this is a very important service that we provide the citizens of this county. And again, as I said, so many of them, out of sight, out of mind. Godwin: Right. Sims: They just don't get it. Godwin: We had sent out press releases about Emergency Medical Dispatch for two reasons; we wanted the callers to know that they were going to be questioned more, there are going to be more questions... Sims: Right. Godwin: ...but it's... Sims: I saw that. That was a good article. Godwin: Was it ok? Sims: Yeah. It was real good. If people would read it and understand what it is and I think it was very well put together and described that, "Hey, stay on the phone." Godwin: Stay on the phone. Sims: We've got people that can help you until something gets there. Godwin: Right. Sims: And try and solve some problems that might have killed a family member. Vol gi9\ Page �% 17 of 19 Godwin: Right. When they threw the camera in my face ... I never like that but ... I, tried to emphasize the fact that they're not calm when they call, they're in crisis and we understand that. Sims: Right. Godwin: But we need the questions answered so we can provide the people that are responding to the call with as much information as possible. So I ended up on two different television stations but only one of them told exactly what I wanted them to say. But we'll just keep plugging away and keep ... we're going to put it on our website this week about Emergency Medical Dispatch and we're going to keep letting people know that its here and start giving them statistics. Like I said, 75 EMD calls since the first. That's a lot. That's a lot. So. Sims: Well if you need some help Kenny and I are not bashful. We'll stand up in front of those TV cameras. Godwin: Ok. Ok. Mallard: But you're going to the City of Bryan and then to College Station next? Godwin: Well just the City of Bryan because they are the ones that... Mallard: From that other... that's right, the other console. They're live anyway and so that'll help get that out and maybe the news media will be there at that time too. Do you know what day you're going to go? Godwin: The 14th. I'll send you an email. Mallard: Ok. Godwin: It's going to be the same presentation as we just did. Male: It's the 13th Godwin: 13th Male: 13th at 3:00 o'clock. Godwin: 3:00 o'clock. Mallard: 13th . That their workshop? Godwin: Yes. Vol 01,P\ Page l K 18 of 19 Mallard: Yeah. City gets a little better media that we do so that'll be a better opportunity to get the word on it. Godwin: I won't wear red. Mallard: Is red a bad color on TV? Godwin: They're more conservative, I think. Mallard: Oh. Godwin: So, I'll wear my dark black. Sims: There ya go. There ya go. Don't wear stripes because that's not good either. Godwin: Sims: Godwin: Mallard: Godwin: Sims: End of tape. Vol Right. Right. Brenda told me that. Yes. No stripes. It messes with the camera. So. Well thank you very much. Thank you. Appreciate it. Thank you guys for coming. I appreciate that. a A Page / q 19 of 19 The foregoing minutes of the Commissioners Court Workshop held March 5th , 2007 have been examined and approved in open Court this the /6 � /�(R day of &)t-' 2047, in Bryan, Brazos County, Texas. 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