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October 25,2000 <br /> Interactive Video Teleconferencing.The budget includes$239,555 to <br /> provide inmamine video teleconferencing equipment to serve each of the City's <br /> seven fire stations. <br /> armt <br /> This system will enable the Depeot to provide <br /> additional and enhanced training to deparment personnel at their assigned <br /> nations.Fire Administration believes this will improve response dines. <br /> Pallor Personnel. I request authority to hire two additional police <br /> officers,increasing the City's Police Department to 181 uniformed officers. <br /> The recent annexations have Increased Everen's population to at least 90,000,so <br /> 181 officers will men our goal of two officers per 1.0W residents. <br /> Pollee Facilities.Work u progressing on the new South Everett Police <br /> Precinct on Everett Mall Way.It should be completed in May of 2001.This <br /> precinct will serve as headqumtees fee the City's south stteor and approximately <br /> 55 officers will be assigned to this facility. Nut fall,we also expect to <br /> complete the remaining renovations of the downtown Police Headquarters at the <br /> old City Hall building,Both of these proiects were funded by CIP 4. <br /> South Police Precinct Leser. We have two leases of South Everett <br /> Police Precinct space which will help to recover some of the City's investment <br /> in this facility. One tenant,tenuity,provides as interttet routing bub which <br /> Oansporb imernal traffic from internee pronMen such as Verizon,Microsoft <br /> and America Online. tenuity will occupy 10,000 square feet. The second <br /> tenam,SNOPAC,will lease 11,0W square fat for In emergency dispatch <br /> Personnel. 0vemll,this proposed budget recommend.the addition of <br /> 13.0 full-time equivalem positions,an increase of 1.2%of budgeted personnel <br /> positions. This includes the eight firefighter-penmedics and the two police <br /> officers discussed above.Other positions recommended in the budget include: <br /> • An activitiescoordinator iv the Parks Department,a <br /> position l <br /> describe w more detail in a few minutes: <br /> • A public information/education specialist to help <br /> implement water conservation programs in the Utilities <br /> Division, <br />