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e -- ~- ---- _._~- --,--- - --- ----~-- 46,5 ~ 3/9/59 I e I I -- I e --~.- .~---- -- -- -. '"1-- I I I :! COUNCILMAN WILSON THEN ASKED If THE REPORT SU,BMITTED BY LT. SMARTT TO THE ,POLICE CHIEf WAS AVAILABLE, AND THIS REPORT WAS RE~D IN ITS t~TIRETY AS fOLLOWS: i I j I ,f I 11 II I I I I ! " , , , "IN SE~TEMBER '1958 MOTOROLA RADIO~ WERE PURGI'tASED. THIS EQUIPMENT WAS TO BE DELIVERED AND INSTALLED, IN 45 DAYS ACCORDING TO SPECifiCATIONS SET BY THE PURCHAS- ING AGENT. I T: WAS fI RST BROUGHT TO MY ATTENT I ON I N JANUARY 1959, THAT SOME Of THE EQUI P- MENT INSTALLED, DID NOT MEEr THE SP,EClflCATlONS. AT THIS TIME THE FOLLOWING COR- RECTIONS WERE NEEDED TO BRING THE EQUIPMENT UP TO SPECIFICATIONS. MAIWSTATION THE MAIN TRANSMlrTER CABLE, LOCATED AT SKINNERS BUTTE, WAS NOT PRESSURIZED AND DID NOT HAVE THE REQUIRED GAUGES AND HARDWARE NECESSARY FOR PROPER INSTALLATION. THIS WAS CORRECTED IN FEBRUARY 1959. MOTORCYCLES ACCORDING TO SPECifICATIONS ALL MOTORCYCLES ARE TO HAVE OVEN HEATED TYPE C,RYSTALS. AT THE PRESENT TIME, ALL MOTORCYCLE EQ:UIP!'-fENT" WHICH IN- CLUDES fiVE UNITS, HAVE STANDARD TYPE CRYSTALS. THE SOLO CYCLES ARE TO HAyE REAR fENDER MOUNTED RADIOS. THIS HAS NOT BEEN DONE AS THE PROPER EQUIPMENT HAS NOT ARRIVED fROM THE MOTOROLA fACTORY. Two Of OUR THREE WHEEL MOTORCYCLES HAVE EQUIPMENT MOUNTED IN THE REAR BOX INSTEAD Of ON THE HANDLE BARS AS SPECifiED. THIS CORRECTION HAS NOT BEEN MADt AS THE PROPER CABLES FOR HANDLE BAR MdUNTING ' DID NOT ARRIVE fROM THE fACTORY. j f I I II II ,) I il Ii \ I I I I ! \ I Ii II " fl i I ! PATROL CARS SEVERAL Of OUR PATROL CARS HAD EQUIPMENT IN~TALLED THAT WAS IMPROPERLY LOCATED. IN FOUR CASES NEW EQUIPMENT WAS INSTALLED AND CONNECTED TO OLD SPEAKE,RS AND HANGERS. THE WIRING, IN SEVERAL CASES WAS NOT SECURED UNDER THE DASH. TH I S HAS ALL BEEN _CORRf;CTED WI TH,THE EXCErT.I ON Of TWO V~H_I CLES WH I CH NEED NEW SPEAKERS. Two VEH I CLES HAD THE, RADIOS MOUNTED ON THE fLOO~ Of THE TRUNK INSTEAD OF LOCATED AS RECOMMENDED BY OUR OffiCE AND THE MOTOROLA INSTALLA- TION GUIDE. BASE STATION (CITY HALL) THE REMOT,E CpNTROL ON THIS STATION HAS NOT OPERATED SINCE THE NEW RADIO EQUIPMENT WAS INSTALLED. I WAS ADVISED THAT THIS CORRECTION SHOULD BE MADE OUT OF OUR OWN BUDGET. SUMMARY OF CORRECTIONS NEEDED I. OVEN HEATED TYPE CRYSTALS INSTALLED ON ALL MOTORCYCLES 2. C~ANGE SOLO CYCLES RADIOS TO PROPER FENDER MOUNT 3. CHANGE 3 WHEE,L CYCLE RAD,IOS TO P,R_OPER HANDLE BAR MOUNT 4. INSTALL NEW S~EAKERS IN PATROL CARS AS INDICATED ABOVE 5. REPAIR MAIN _ST,ATION REMOTE CONTROL" COUNCILMAN LINDEEN THEN INDICATED THAT THE CITY HAD SET fORTH SPECifiCATIONS AND REQUIREMENTS IN ITS BID CALL AND THAT BASEp ON THE SPECIFICATIONS AND REQUI,REMENTS ONE BID HAD BEEN REJECTED BUT IT NOW APPEARS THAT THE COMPANY WHO RECEIVED THE BID COULD NOT MEET THE SPECifiCATIONS EITHER AND HE fELT THAT THE BID ARRANGEMEN~ SHOULD HA~E BEEN EQUAL AND fAIR fOR ALL. MR. BEEBE Of MOTOROLA STATED HIS fI,RST KNOWLEDGE AS TO DEfiCIENCIES HAD BEEN BY LETTER ON FEBRUARY 16, 1959. HE STATED rHERE H~D BEEN CERTAIN DELAYS AND T~AT THESE ARE BEING CORRECTED AS RAPIDLY AS POSSIBLE, THAT SOME Of THE POLICE DEPARTMENT EQUIP~ENT DID NOT HAVE THE PROPER VOLTAGE, THAT HIS fiRM HAD TO KEEP TWO SEPAR~TE SYSTEMS IN OPERATION DURING THE PERIOD Of THE CHANGEOVER, AND IT WAS fURTHER STATED THAT MOTOROLA IS WILLING TO DO WHATEVER IS NECESSARY TO COMPLETE THE IN- . . STALLATION Of THE EQUIPMENT TO THE SATISfACTION Of THE COUNCIL. COUNCILMAN LINDEEN THEN I,NDICATED. THAT Ir APPEARS THAT THERE IS SOME PREJUDICE AGAINST GENERAL ELECTRIC RADIO EQUIPMENT. IT WAS STATED THAT THE CITY HAS GENERAL ELECTRIC RADIO EQUIPMENT IN THE PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT AND THAT IT IS WORKING QUITE SATISfACTORILY. IT WAS fURTHER INDICATED THAT THE CITY HAS THREE SEPARATE RADIO SYSTEMS, ONE fOR THE POLICE DEPARTMENT, ONE fOR THE PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT AND ONE fOR THE FIRE DEPARTMENT. ON fURTHER QUESTIONS, MR. BEEBE Of MOTOROLA STATED THAT APPROXIMATELY 25 PIECES Of EQUIPME~T HAQ BEEN ORDERED, THAT THE MAJORITY Of ,T~IS'HAD BEEN IN- STALLED, THAT ,THE EQUIPMENr ORDERED IS Of TWO PRI,NCIPAL _TYPES, ONE fOR AUTOMOTIVE VEHICLES AND THE OTHER fOR MOTORO~eLE UNITS, AND THAT THESE TWO TYPES O,FEQUIPMENT ARE ENTIRELY DIfFERENT, THAT THE MOTORCYCLE EQUIPMENT IS TRANSISTORIZED, THAT THE CITY SPECifiCATIONS CALLED fOR SADDLE BACK MOUNTS WHICH ARE NOT ~SEDSrORQ[RANSISTORIZED RADIOS AND THROW THE MOTORCYCLES OFF BALANCE BECAUSE THEY ARE MOUNTED ALONGSIDE THE fENDE~, NOT ON TOP OF THE fENDER, THAT GETTING THE _PROPER PLACEMENT Of THE MOTORCYCLE EQUIPMENT RESULTED IN SOME CONFUSION AND THE USE Of MAT~RIALS NOT INTEND~DWHICH WAS EVIDENCED IN OTHER MOTORCYCLE INSTALLATIONS. i j I Ij j, II 11 i i I I II !' I I I ~ Ii j; I: I" :' THERE WAS SOME DISCUSSION ALSO WITH RESPECT TO THE REQUIREMENT fOR OVEN HEATED TYPE CRYSTALS IN THE MOTORCYCLE UNITS AND MOTqROLA'S ~EPRESENTATIVE STATED THAT THE EQUIPMENT AS FURNISHED IS DESIGNED TO MEET AND MAINTAIN F~C TOLERANCES BUT THAT ,THEY WOULD DO WHATEVER IS NECESSARY TO MEET THE SPECifiCATIONS AND TO SEE THAT THE RADIOS ARE PROPERLY INSTALLED. I'"j' " l' ! IT WAS MOVED BY MR. WILSON ~ECONDED BY ,MR. SHEARER THAT THIS MATTER BE PLACED IN SUSPENSE UNTIL A SATISFACTORY REPORT IS RECEIVED. MOTION CARRIED. i',l' , " , ~