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4 <br /> ORANGE COUNTY <br /> BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br /> COPY ACTION AOENQl4=5, 2012 CT <br /> Meeting Date: <br /> Action Agenda <br /> Item No. <br /> SUBJECT: Recommendations from the Emergency Services Workgroup for VIPER Radio <br /> —_--_-- System Improvements and Communication System Improvements <br /> DEPARTMENT: Emergency Services PUBLIC HEARING: (YIN) iVo <br /> ATTACHMENT(S): INFORMATION CONTACT: <br /> 1. County Capital Investment Plan for F. R. Montes de Oca, 245-6100 <br /> Emergency Services Michael Talbert, 245-2153 <br /> 2. Revised Capital Investment Plan for <br /> Communication System <br /> Improvements <br /> 3. VIPER Tower Sites Worksheet <br /> 4. VIPER Tower VHF Antenna Sites <br /> Map <br /> PURPOSE: To receive recommendations from the Emergency Services Workgroup for VIPER <br /> (Voice Interoperability Plan for Emergency Responders) Radio System Improvements and <br /> Communication System Improvements included in the Capital Investment Plan for Fiscal Year <br /> 2012-13 and Incorporate the recommendations as appropriate into the approval of the Fiscal <br /> Year 2012-13 Annual Budget. <br /> BACKGROUND, At the May 15, 2012 regular meeting, the Manager presented the Board with <br /> the Recommended Fiscal Year 2012-13 Annual Operating Budget and 2012-17 Capital <br /> Investment Plan. <br /> VIPER Radio System <br /> On April 10, 2012, Mike Hodgson, Manager of the VIPER system for the North Carolina State <br /> Highway Patrol, met with the Emergency Services Workgroup. The best option for Orange <br /> County to eliminate busy signals Is by placing an optimum number of channels on each existing <br /> communications, tower. Equipment and hardware on the existing towers in grange County as <br /> well as the surrounding areas would need to be upgraded to allow for increased system <br /> capacity to reduce busy signals received by field units during times of high demand. Channels <br /> and additional equipment would need to be added to the,following locations based on the moet <br /> current information from the state: <br /> • Chatham Site: 3 channels/1 combiner <br /> • Hillsborough Site: 2 channels/1 combiner/1 antenna package. The tower is <br /> currently full and may require additional work to allow channels to be added, <br /> • Laws Site: 3 channels <br /> e UNC Site: 2 channels. Site Is maintained by UNC and may require additionar <br /> work to add channels. <br />