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I ¡ II I ! I II 2) Council discussion; ~ In response to Council questions, Chief Bolanos said he shared the Council's concerns regarding maintenance costs, and said all aspects of the System were still being negotiated. Captain Vermeer described the City Attorney's participation in the negotiations. In response to Council questions, Chief Bolanos said his department is working on grant applications to help fund or modify the current System and to continue to deploy state of the art technology in the future. In response to Council questions regarding the difference in the original cost and current proposed cost, City Attorney Schricker said, "It is safe to say that the difference in price underscores the fluidity of the negotiation process referred to by the Chief. Without getting into specific details, our office has not been satisfied with the responses, for instance, on the questions regarding justification and verification of the maintenance costs. Those, clearly, before they come back to you with any figure, if there is to be a figure with respect to maintenance costs, must be verified. We wouldn't bring it back to you unless we have solid facts which you would feel safe endorsing. By the same token, the value of the System itself... is in an area of negotiations. Valuation is an interesting art, because you can talk in terms of book value, replacement value and speak in terms of monopolistic values, and speak in - terms of other kinds of theories of attaching a value to a system. We're trying to bring the theory down to reality, and that is part of the negotiation process. I wouldn't say that $85,000 was a final figure either. In fact, I'm assured it's not." 3) Public comment; Mayor Hartnett said that everyone who wanted to address the Council would have the opportunity to do so. He said that this subject had been before the Council many times and the Council was fully familiar with the Shotspotter Gunfire Locator System ITom reports and public comment previously received, and correspondence, pro and con. The following people addressed the Council in support of the Shotspotter Gunfire Locator System, citing the following reasons: Gunfire has dramatically decreased since the installation ofthe System during trials Phase I and Phase II; the System has obviously worked as a major deterrent to random gunfire; the quality of life has improved in the neighborhood and the level of the fear has decreased; the System is one tool of several that can be used to deter random gunfire and plot future surveillance; the neighborhood was challenged to find its own solutions, discovered the System and brought it to the Police and City Council; working together on the - REGULAR COUNCIL MEETING MINUTE BOOK NO. 55 MARCH 17, 1997 MINUTES Page No. 201 PAGE 7