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Agenda Item: Reports-3b _ Status: Informational BUREAU -OF PUBLIC SERVICE ` DIVISION OF EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS 3524 Hennepin Av. .South HENNEPIN Minneapolis, Minnesota 55408 827-5687 DATE: December 13, 1984 TO: Local Community Directors FROM: Emergency Preparedness SUBJECT: Siren Conversion Project On 4 December 1984 the Hennepin County Board of Commissioners approved the bid, and contract number 4776 was awarded to Healy-Ruff for the Hennepin County system to activate outdoor warning sirens by radio tone. Over the past three years a Siren Conversion Advisory Committee, consisting of Hennepin County professional staff and members from representative local communites, have spent considerable time and effort in researching, screening and recommending the system that was approved by the County Board. Local community members of the committee are Maple Grove Police Chief Bob Burlingame, Golden Valley Deputy Public Safety Director Dean Mooney, Bloomington Police Captain Dick Porth, Eden Prairie Public Safety Captain Keith Wall and Communications Advisor Paul Linnee of Richfield, and Minneapolis Police Sergeant Pete Zierman. Each of the above individuals is either Emergency Preparedness Director or Coordinator for his community. The Hennepin County Siren Control system will place into operation the transmitting and encoding equipment needed to broadcast, by radio signals in the VHF frequency band, discrete control signals for each of the approximate 160 sirens now in service. As individual sirens are converted to radio control , they can be completely isolated from any "leased telephone company supplied circuits." The new system will provide for siren activation from the present County Warning Point at the Hennepin County Sheriff's Radio Division, 9300 Naper Street, Golden Valley, with backup control using completely different equipment at another looation. At the Golden Valley location, the siren control encoder will also be duplicated, each completely independent of the other. Under the .contract, Hennepin County will purchase all equipment necessary to generate and broadcast the discrete siren control signals. Under the same contract, individual municipalities will purchase at firm prices, for each of the next two consecutive years from the date of the contract award, the required equipment to convert their individual sirens to receive the discrete control signals. HENNEPiN COUNTY an equal opportunity employer