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CITY COUNCIL/REDEVELOP MENT AGENCY
CITY OF HUNTINGTON BEACH
5:00 PM - Room B-8
6:00 PM - Room B-8
Huntington Beach, California
Monday, October 27, 1997
An audio tape recording of this meeting is
on file in the Office of the City Clerk.
CALL TO ORDER
Mayor Bauer called the adjourned regular meetings of the City Council and the
Redevelopment Agency of the City of Huntington Beach to order at 5:00 p.m. in Room B-8.
CITY COUNCILIREDEVELOPMENT AGENCY ROLL CALL
Present: Harman, Dettloff, Bauer, Sullivan, Green, Garofalo, (Julien arrived at 5.12 p.m.)
Absent: None
PUBLIC COMMENTS REGARDING STUDY SESSION OR CLOSED SESSION AGENDA
ITEMS
There were no persons present to address Council regarding the study session or closed
session item scheduled on the agenda.
MOTION TO RECESS TO CLOSED SESSION - APPROVED (120.80)
A motion was made by Sullivan, second Harman to recess the City Council to closed
session to consider the following items. The motion carried by unanimous vote.
Closed Session - City Council pursuant to Government Code Section 54957.6 to meet with its
designated representatives, William Osness, Personnel Director, and Daniel Cassidy, Esquire,
Liebert, Cassidy and Frierson, regarding labor relations matters - meet and confer with the
following employee organizations: Marine Safety Officers' Association, Police Officers'
Association, Police Management Association, Municipal Employees' Association, Management
Employees' Organization, Huntington Beach Firefighters' Association, and Surf City Lifesaving
Employees' Association. (120.80)
RECONVENE
Mayor Bauer reconvened the adjourned regular meetings of the City Council and
Redevelopment Agency in Room B-8 at 6:20 p.m.
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PUBLIC COMMENTS
There were no persons present to address Council regarding the item scheduled on the
agenda.
ITEMS REPORTED FROM CLOSED SESSION - NONE
City Attorney Hutton informed Council that there were no announcements to be made as a
result of the closed session held earlier in the meeting.
CITY COUNCILIREDEVELOPMENT AGENCY ROLL CALL
Present: Julien, Harman, Dettloff, Bauer, Sullivan, Green, Garofalo
Absent: None
(CITY COUNCILIREDEVELOPMENT AGENCY) STUDY SESSION - DISCUSSION
REGARDING AN OVERVIEW AND NEEDS ASSESSMENT OF THE CITY'S COMPUTER
INFRASTRUCTUREIBUSINESS SYSTEMS, COMPUTER AIDED DISPATCH, AND
GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION - PRESENTATION BY STAFF FROM FIRE, POLICE AND
PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENTS
Material distributed to the City Council by the Fire Chief: Slide Report —Information
Technology Needs For The City of Huntington Beach dated October 27, 1997 and a printout
which demonstrates the Year 2000 Problem.
Fire Chief Dolder presented a staff report. He reviewed the first 23 pages of the 40-page slide
report titled Information Technology Needs For The City of Huntington Beach dated
October 27, 1997. During the slide presentation, the Fire Chief responded to Council's
questions. He distributed a printout to each Council member that represented one page of a
12-foot high stack of computer data needing to be converted to "Year 2000."
Subjects reviewed included City's Technologies; Computer Infrastructure;
Telecommunications; Government Access Television; Radio Systems-800 MHz —Police, Fire,
Marine Safety, General Government; Mission Critical Business Systems; Value Added
Systems (Fiber Optics, Optical Imaging/Document Management, Internet/Intranet);
Methodology; and Challenges.
Roger Ham, Communication Administrative Public Safety Officer, presented the portion of the
slide presentation covering the Public Safety Systems Group ---Page Nos. 23 through 34. The
three goals that the Huntington Beach Police Systems are designed and built to achieve are to
increase efficiency and safety of officers in the field by (1) providing more and faster
information before responding, allowing faster response and minimizing officers' clerical work;
(2) increasing communications and Command Center's efficiency by developing more
sophisticated systems with dynamic displays of unit status, unit location, and call and resource
information in a real time environment; and (3) providing records management and information
data to all staff personnel with the intent of better information being available on-line for
Records, Detectives, Patrol, and Administration.
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Tim Dupuis, Geographic information System Technician, presented the portion of the slide
report covering Page Nos. 35 through 37—Geographic Information System (GIS). The
overview included conversion of all paper maps of a city into one layered computer map. This
computer map acts as a model of the city allowing staff to analyze aspects of the city ranging
from water pressure in the water system to crime statistics in the downtown area. Mr. Dupuis
reported on the history of the Geographic Information Systems, awards won and the future of
Surf City GIS.
Fire Chief Dolder presented the Slide Report Summary, Page Nos. 38 through 40, including
the changing environment of government services, benefits of information technology and city
technology needs.
ADJOURNMENT - CITY COUNCILIREDEVELOPMENT AGENCY
The Mayor adjourned the adjourned regular meetings of the City Council and the
Redevelopment Agency of the City of Huntington Beach to the regular meetings to be held on
Monday, November 3, 1997 at 5:00 p.m. in Room B-8, Civic Center, 2000 Main Street,
Huntington Beach, California.
ATTEST:
City Clerk/Clerk
City Cle'r"k and ex-officio Clerk of Me City
Council of the City of Huntington Beach
and Clerk of the Redevelopment Agency
of the City of Huntington Beach, California
Mayor/Chairman
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