Purchase and Installation of Security CamerasMasterpiece on the Mississippi
TO: The Honorable Mayor and City Council Members
FROM: Michael C. Van Milligen, City Manager
SUBJECT: Purchase and Installation of Security Cameras
DATE: June 27, 2013
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After recent incidents in downtown, I met with staff from the Police Department,
Information Services and the Engineering Department to discuss the installation of
additional security cameras.
The City currently has numerous traffic cameras controlling intersections that have
traffic signals and these are frequently used by the Police Department to determine
what occurred in a traffic accident and to solve crimes. The City also has numerous
security cameras (Attachment I) at places like the City parking ramps, the Port of
Dubuque and Comiskey Park. The new restrooms being built at 5til and Bluff have
security cameras in the design.
The City Council has approved money in the 5 -year Capital Improvement Budget for the
installation of cameras. Much of this recommendation is an acceleration of that
installation and additional locations:
Port of Dubuque
Federal Building
Historic Millwork District
Northwest Arterial Detention Basin
Carter Road Detention Basin
West 32nd Street Detention Basin
Veteran's Memorial Park
McAleece Park
Allison- Henderson Park
17 as of yet undesignated intersections throughout the City
John F. Kennedy Road Bus Transfer Station
Flora Pool
Sutton Pool
Jackson Park
Municipal Services Center
Main Street from 1st to 9th Street
A walkthrough of Jackson Park was done by Engineering Technician Duane Richter,
Park Division Manager Stephen Fehsal, Lead Applications Network Analyst Tony
Steffen, Senior Network /Systems Administrator Lisa Hamilton, and Ken Fleege from
Racom. It was discussed that there were a lot of low hanging branches that obstructed
the view from the desirable locations for the cameras. The tree crew is currently
working on the low hanging branches and greatly improving the line of sight into the
park.
Racom has submitted a 2 -phase proposal to cover the Jackson Park area. The first
phase will install 7 standalone cameras with their own storage, the enclosures and
switches. Phase 1 will be the quickest way to get security cameras in place at Jackson
Park. Cost for phase 1 is $12,200.00.
Phase 2 of Racom's proposal for Jackson Park will provide a DVR server for video
storage, and networking for the cameras, to facilitate access to the video and integration
of the Jackson Park cameras into our existing camera network within internet protocol
monitoring access. Cost for Phase 2 is $25,500.00.
Racom provided updated pricing for placing exterior cameras at City Hall and the City
Hall Annex. This proposal will provide for 7 cameras on and around the City Hall
Annex, and 1 camera at City Hall. This will provide security camera coverage for the
City Hall Annex and surrounding areas and the south side of City Hall. These cameras
will use the DVR server purchased in Phase 2 of the Jackson Park proposal for video
storage. Cost for City Hall exterior camera is $2,814.00. Cost for City Hall Annex
exterior cameras is $14,654.00.
The rest of the City Hall and Prescott School as well as the coverage for Carnegie -Stout
Library will come from the purchase of 20 cameras to be placed on traffic lights and
connected to the traffic network. The cost for these cameras is $32,280.00.
The additional camera locations include:
10th and Locust (North)
12th and Locust (South)
14th and Locust (South)
10th and Bluff (North)
13th and White (down 13th Street North of City Hall /Annex)
13th and Central (toward City Hall)
Midblock 12th /13th on Central looking down alley
Fixed Dome on City Hall (South Side)
12th and Main (North)
12th and Main (towards Parking Lot)
12th and Main looking at West side of City Hall
11th and Central (looking west)
Central at 14th or 17th looking North (not sure which will be better yet)
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Racom provided pricing for 10 additional cameras for mounting on the traffic lights.
These cameras (and two the City had in stock) have been installed over the last two
weeks covering the following areas (Attachment II):
17th St and Central Ave. facing west
14th St and Iowa facing south
14th St and Locust facing north
14th St and Main St facing north
14th St and Bluff St facing north
14th St and Bluff St facing south
11th St and White St facing west
11th St and White St facing north
14th St and Central Ave. facing south
14th and Iowa Street facing north
20th and Central facing south
22nd and Central facing south
This is a cost effective solution to cover these areas since Traffic already has the
infrastructure in place. Cost for 10 additional cameras is $14,200.00.
In order to continue to retain video for 30 days and add additional cameras another
DVR server for video storage was also quoted by Racom for the Traffic Center. Cost of
the DVR server is $30,621.50.
Budget Impact:
The total cost for this project as outlined above is $132,269.00. The areas being
covered by these purchases will be:
Jackson Park and surrounding streets
City Hall and surrounding streets
Iowa St from 12th St to 17th St
City Hall Annex and surrounding streets
The streets surrounding Prescott School
Bluff St from 12th St to 16th St
Locust St from 12th to 16th
City Hall Annex
Carnegie -Stout Library
There will be additional recommendations made at a later time to provide additional
security camera coverage.
This project would be funded by a $200,000 savings realized in the road salt budget.
Michael C. Van Milligen
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Attachment
cc: Barry Lindahl, City Attorney
Cindy Steinhauser, Assistant City Manager
Teri Goodmann, Assistant City Manager
Jenny Larson, Budget Director
Mark Dalsing, Chief of Police
Marie Ware, Leisure Services Manager
Mark Murphy, Emergency Communications Manager
Chris Kohlmann, Information Services Manager
Gus Psihoyos, City Engineer
Lisa Hamilton, Senior Network /Systems Administrator
Dave Ness, Civil Engineer II
Duane Richter, Engineering Technician
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Mike Van Milligen - Road Salt Supplies
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From: Mike Van Milligen <ctymgr @cityofdubuque.org> (Mike Van Milligen)
To: City Council Members
Date: 7/1/2013 1:12 PM
Subject: Road Salt Supplies
CC: Goodmann, Teri; Klostermann, John; Lindahl, Barry; Steinhauser, Cindy...
Attachments: Winter Operations - Snow and Ice Control.pdf
At tonight's City Council Meeting I am recommending using savings from the road salt budget to fund the
camera purchases.
You will see from the attached memo from Street /Sewer Maintenance Supervisor John Klostermann that by this
winter (with salt on hand and that to be delivered by barge later this summer) the city will have 14,412 tons of
salt available for city use for the winter of 2013 -2014. This is 1,917 tons (15.3 %) more than the salt useage in
the Fiscal Year 2008 all -time record winter, 11,343 tons more than the salt useage in the Fiscal Year 2012
winter and 8,357 tons (138 %) more than the average annual salt useage over the last 5 years.
Public Works Director Don Vogt, John Klostermann and I feel comfortable with the amount of road salt the city
has available for this coming winter.
Mike
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Masterpiece on the Mississippi
TO: Michael C. Van Mil[igen, City Manager
FROM: John Klostermann, Street/Sewer Maintenance Supervisor
SUBJECT: Winter Operations — Snow and Ice Control
DATE: July 1, 2013
Dubuque
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Introduction
The purpose for this memorandum is to review the Public Works Department's snow
and ice control program and recent improvements.
Background
In order to achieve a high level of service during and after winter storm events the
Public Works Department has incorporated the use of new technology and techniques
to provide a high level of service. While each and every winter storm event is unique
and not all techniques can be used during every winter event, all pre -storm information
is evaluated and the best techniques are chosen.
Discussion
The City of Dubuque's road deicer salt usage over the last ten years has ranged from a
low of 3,069 tons in FY 12 to a high of 12,495 tons during the record FY08 winter. Its
ten year average for FY03 through FY12 is 7,048 tons. Its 5 years average for FY09
through FY13 is 6,055 tons.
The implementation of new technology and techniques over the past years has assured
that the department has available adequate salt supplies each winter, that deicers are
used at a recommended application rate and all available city wide resources are
available to the department during major winter storm events. Having the opportunity to
allow for additional staff training also has played a major part in implementing new
technologies.
Some of the new technologies implemented over the past ten years include;
• the conversion of all deicer controllers in the snow and ice control fleet from a
manual controller to a calibrated ground speed controller which allows for a more
accurate deicer spread rate,
• the installation of wing plows on the snow and ice control fleet,
• the installation of a liquid deicer blending system which allows for the best use of
. liquid deicer for pre- wetting salt and anti -icing techniques,
• the installation of an Automated Vehicle Location (AVL) system which monitors
salt application rates,
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• the recent conversion of single edge snow plows to multi -edge snow plows which
provide the operator with the ability to select the snow plow cutting edge to the
pavement condition and,
• the replacement of our heavy plow fleet which was made up of three older
endloaders and 3 used motor graders to a newer and more productive fleet of
one motor grader and five endloaders equipped with front plows with hi -gates or
a front and wing plow combination.
New techniques incorporated recently to the Public Works Department snow and ice
control operation includes two major changes. First the implementation of an auxiliary
plow fleet currently increases the number of units available for snow plowing from 24 to
35 total units. Under the direction of the Public Works Department personnel from
various departments using exiting city —owned vehicles equipped with snow plows are
dispatched to plow residential streets during major winter storm events. Currently
additional units are being identified which would increase the total number of available
units from 35 to 38 total units.
The second change is the way the department purchases road deicer salt. Currently,
road salt is purchased by the City and its purchase partners, and received during the off
season by using a reserved storage pad at the Purina Drive Terminal. Currently this
pad has 12,783 tons of salt on it, and a total of 12,550 tons of salt is owned by the City.
The Public Works Department also has an additional 1,000 tons of salt available at the
Municipal Services Center's deicer storage building. This current system assures that
adequate salt supplies are available when needed during winter storm events. With the
current salt supply in place, the Public Works department is only purchasing the "extra"
salt available (862 tons) at an estimated cost of $44,901 from the purchase of two salt
barges ordered to meet the needs of our purchasing partners. These funds will come
from the departments FY 2014 snow and ice control budget.
Action Required
This information has been provided as requested and no additional action is needed.
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