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15 <br /> 1 Slide #27 <br /> Diversity in Departments <br /> • Total Firefighters=303 <br /> • Female Firefighters=34 <br /> • Minorities= 33 <br /> (Chapel Hill Fire Department not included in stats) <br /> 2 27 <br /> 3 Chief Keith Hayes said these numbers also exclude Chapel Hill Fire Department's numbers. <br /> 4 Chief Jeff Cabe said nationwide percentages are single digits, so they are proud their numbers <br /> 5 are around 10% <br /> 6 <br /> 7 6. ARPA Funding —VIPER Radio Replacements <br /> 8 White Cross Fire Department will provide an update on the current status of the VIPER radio <br /> 9 replacement project funded by County ARPA funds. <br /> 10 <br /> 11 Slide #28 <br /> ABPA Funding Update <br /> • Chief Phillip Nasseri <br /> 12 Z` <br /> 13 Chief Nasseri said that they are almost ready to go to bid for the radios and it will be on <br /> 14 their November 1st agenda. <br /> 15 Commissioner McKee asked if there are still issues with penetrating buildings. <br /> 16 Chief Nasseri said there will always be issues until the upgrades and new BDAs. He said <br /> 17 that the schools were first on the list for BDAs. <br /> 18 Commissioner McKee said he thinks the county has some mobile units. <br /> 19 Kirby Saunders said there are mobile repeaters. He said that the BDAs are in the <br /> 20 benchmarking process. He said that should be completed by February 1St and should have some <br /> 21 installs completed by this fiscal year. He said they are also updating paging equipment and one <br /> 22 of the towers is the same tower that will be part of the larger radio system improvements. He said <br /> 23 they will be presenting those project proposals in the CIP. <br /> 24 Chief Nasseri said they appreciate the work of Emergency Services trying to make these <br /> 25 technology upgrades happen. He said if they cannot get the calls, they cannot go help. <br />