Broken Arrow City Council
Meeting of: 4-15-2025
Title:
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Approval of and authorization to purchase the Unify software product from CentralSquare to enhance the mutual automatic aid agreement between the City of Broken Arrow and the City of Coweta
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Background:
On January 7, 2025 the Broken Arrow City Council approval an auto-aid agreement between the Broken Arrow Fire Department and the Coweta Fire Department. This agreement provided for Broken Arrow to give automatic aid to certain areas within the Coweta Fire Department’s response area. To better enhance these types of responses, our Computer Aided Dispatch (CAD) vendor , CentralSquare, provides a software product called Unify which permits the linking of Broken Arrow’s CAD system to Coweta’s CAD system. This linkage will streamline information sharing between CAD systems, thereby speeding up the responses from both agencies and reducing the chances for error during verbal exchanges. Looking ahead, addition of this software will allow us to link to other CAD systems from other participating agencies if similar automatic or mutual aid agreement opportunities presented themselves.
Coweta has committed to funding their portion of the project. This commitment will address the ongoing annual software subscription expense of $26,100.00 needed to perpetuate the effort. The cost of $50,699.25 cited below includes both implementation and subscription.
Cost: $50,699.25
Funding Source: Public Safety Sales Tax, Fund 345
Requested By: Lance Arnold, Chief of Police
Approved By: City Manager’s Office
Attachments: Sales Quote and Mutual Aid Agreement
Recommendation:
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Approve and authorize purchase of the Unify software product from CentralSquare to enhance the mutual automatic aid agreement between the City of Broken Arrow and the City of Coweta