City-county Emergency Management Director Jon Rosenlund addresses Grand Island’s City Council March 25 concerning 911 software, (Carol Bryant, Central Nebraska Today)
GRAND ISLAND – Grand Island’s City Council voted 9-0 March 25 to approve 911 quality review and training software.
City Council member Mike Paulick was absent from the March 25 meeting.
In a memo from City/County Emergency Management Director Jon Rosenlund, he wrote that the annual fee for the software is $23,906.
The software is capable of “reviewing 911 and non-emergency calls for service and provide automatic quality performance reviews, statistical reports, and simulated calls for training purposes.”
The current call review process “requires a Senor Public Safety Dispatcher to review various recordings of radio traffic, telephone calls, and information recorded in the Computer Aided Dispatch (CAD) records. This process can be time consuming, removing the Senior Public Safety Dispatcher from the console to perform reviews for hours at a time, in order to complete an adequate number of call reviews.”
The Grand Island Emergency Center processes nearly 60,000 computer-aided dispatch calls every year. The software “uses artificial intelligence to monitor every inbound telephone call, radio transmission, and computer-aided dispatch call.”
In another matter, the City Council voted 9-0 to approve transferring $100,000 to Landscapes Golf Management for the operation of the City’s JackRabbit Run Golf course. In December 2020, the city approved a management contract with Landscapes Golf Management.
The contract is a five-year agreement to employ and be responsible for all golf course staff and manage day-to-day operations which includes property maintenance, food and beverage, marketing, payroll processing, and programming.
Last year, the city gave Landscapes Golf Management $100,000 to manage the golf course. City Council member Chuck Haase questioned the money transfer, saying now didn’t seem to be the right time to be making the request.
Hooker Brothers Sand and Gravel requested a 20-year conditional use permit to operate a sand and gravel business east of Blaine Street and north of Schimmer Road on approximately 75 acres. City staff recommended that the conditional use permit be for 10 years. A neighbor was concerned about whether the business would affect his well, used for agricultural purposes. At the end of the mining period, the site would be developed for residential uses. The City Council voted 9-0 to table the request and asked that the issue be brought to the next City Council meeting in two weeks with a provision to address the water well.
In another matter, the City Council voted 9-0 to issue a no-parking zone along Museum Drive between Seedling Mile Road and Swift Road. Museum Drive is a two-lane gravel road with the majority bordered by property owned by the City of Grand Island Utilities Department. Trucks affiliated with JBS have been parking on the road, potentially affecting access to the city’s property. The Utilities Department has requested Museum Drive be designated as a no-parking zone to assist with access to and security of its infrastructure located in this area.
