PLEASE NOTE: Presidng Mayor Mark Freeman references what he calls Item 4-a - then calls for the presentation on online police reporting first...
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Banneker Partners, a private equity firm, owns Versaterm Public Safety. Banneker purchased a controlling interest in Versaterm in 2020.
Explanation
- Versaterm is a public safety software company that provides solutions for police, fire, and EMS agencies.
- Banneker Partners is an investment firm that focuses on enterprise software.
- Versaterm has acquired several companies since 2020, including FivePoint Solutions, SPIDR Tech, and Visual Labs.
- Versaterm's software provides real-time information to first responders, such as whether a suspect has a criminal record.
Canada-based Versaterm Public Safety is betting that artificial intelligence can help police and the public better handle non-emergency calls.
The supplier of public safety technology, which lately has been on an acquisition streak, has launched what it calls conversational AI-powered Case Service Reporting.
According to a statement, the tool enables people submitting non-emergency police reports to do so by holding conversations with what the company called a “virtual investigator.” Those conversations can happen via voice, web, text or a law enforcement agency’s mobile app.
The supplier of public safety technology, which lately has been on an acquisition streak, has launched what it calls conversational AI-powered Case Service Reporting.
According to a statement, the tool enables people submitting non-emergency police reports to do so by holding conversations with what the company called a “virtual investigator.” Those conversations can happen via voice, web, text or a law enforcement agency’s mobile app.
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Roll Call
1 Review and discuss items on the agenda for the January 27, 2025 regular
Council meeting.....................................................
2 Presentations/Action Items:
25-0046 Hear a presentation, discuss, and receive an update on Mesa’s Climate
Action Plan projects, including water conservation.
2-a
| On agenda: | 1/23/2025 |
| Title: | Hear a presentation, discuss, and receive an update on Mesa’s Climate Action Plan projects, including water conservation. |
| Attachments: | 1. Presentation |
3 Current events summary including meetings and conferences attended.
4 Scheduling of meetings
| Four-Year Term Contract with Six One-Year Renewal Options for Online Police Reporting Solution for the Mesa Police Department and Department of Innovation and Technology (Citywide) |
| City Council | Agenda status: | Final |
| Meeting date/time: | 1/27/2025 5:45 PM |
Item 3-a
| On agenda: | 1/27/2025 |
| Title: | Four-Year Term Contract with Six One-Year Renewal Options for Online Police Reporting Solution for the Mesa Police Department and Department of Innovation and Technology (Citywide) Community Report is a product that provides an online public engagement platform for residents, businesses, and visitors in Mesa to report non-emergencies. An intelligent virtual investigator interviews the person reporting the issue. The solution integrates with the Police Department’s Versaterm Records Management Solution and provides a view-ready report of qualifying incidents to residents, businesses, and visitors. A committee representing the Mesa Police Department, Department of Innovation and Technology, and Procurement Services evaluated responses. The evaluation committee recommends awarding the contract to the highest-scored proposal from Versaterm Public Safety, Inc. (a Mesa business) at $238,487.93 for Year 1 and $153,802.82 annually for software licensing, support and maintenance for Years ... |
| Attachments: | 1. Council Report |
REFERENCE FOR FEATURED IMAGE PRESENTATION
4 Take action on the following resolutions:
25-0083 Approving the Electric Integrated Resource Plan (IRP) in conformance with
federal regulations (10 CFR 905.11) that qualifies the City of Mesa to receive
electric power generated at federally-owned hydroelectric plants.
The IRP is
a systematic approach to identify and select resources to meet our
customers' electric needs.
The IRP will be submitted to the Western Area
Power Administration (WAPA) upon Council approval.
(Districts 1 and 4)
Resolution No. 12323
Purpose and Recommendation
The City Council is requested to approve the submittal of the Integrated Resource Plan (IRP) proposed by the Energy Resources Department which covers the electric power and energy resource demands of the City of Mesa’s (Mesa) local distribution utility system through the year 2030.
- The City itself is the largest customer within the ESA (based on the combined use of all Mesa facilities in the ESA). Summer peak demand in July 2024 for the electric utility reached 86.3 MW.
- The successful submittal of this IRP will permit Mesa to comply with an important requirement of the long-term hydroelectric power supply agreements with the Western Area Power Administration (Western).
- In accordance with the Energy Policy Act of 1992, these contracts with Western, which provide Mesa with its current lowest cost power supply (which is also renewable), require the filing of either a new resource plan or an updated resource plan approximately every five years as well as annual reports.
- Upon approval by the City Council, Mesa would submit the IRP to Western as its updated Integrated Electric Resource Plan.
- An IRP is a document that summarizes a planning process which assesses and 2 compares alternatives to provide energy resource needs for the electric utility customers through the year 2030.
The IRP will facilitate Mesa’s continued provision
of safe, reliable, economic and sustainable electric resources to its customers by
establishing a systematic approach for evaluating and planning the acquisition of
electric power and energy resources to meet both current and future customer loads. - The IRP also considers demand side management programs which are utility programs to encourage customers to conserve energy rather than having the utility seek additional energy resources.
- Given that Mesa’s supply contracts are staged to expire in a cascading manner throughout the IRP’s timeframe, this IRP will help identify the resource or combination of resources that will best replace those contracts while considering diversity, reliability, dispatchability, sustainability and other risk factors.
- By providing a small incentive to customers, and aggressively marketing the survey, the survey response approximately tripled the response of Mesa’s last IRP in 2019 with 167 fully validated responses.
- This survey provided critical feedback as to the priorities of Mesa’s electric customers, provided insight into how customers have made energy efficiency improvements at their homes and businesses, provided insight into whether they are considering the purchase of electric vehicles and more.
- Input from customers indicated that although they have a strong desire for renewable resources, they are more sensitive to rate increases that could result from the integration of such resources and they also have a high concern for the reliability of the delivery of electricity.
- The IRP includes an action plan that will guide Mesa’s resource acquisition decisions through 2030.
- The focus of this action plan has been a set of guiding principles rather than a specific prescription of which resources to purchase.
During this last IRP period
(between 2019 and today), markets evolved rapidly and the energy industry underwent
fundamental changes. Because of these changes, a heavily prescriptive plan could
become outdated very quickly and would not achieve the goal of having a flexible,
dynamic plan. Mesa’s ability to respond quickly to challenges has been critical to adapt
to these changes during the past five years. - With the aggressive approach towards maximizing competition for Mesa’s business; the leveraging of the many assets that Mesa already possesses (available land, tax exempt financing, the natural gas utility and many more); and soliciting competitive offers for conventional and renewable resources,
- Mesa expects that this action plan will continue to reduce electric portfolio costs compared to the past four years and will also increase the amount of renewable resources that Mesa provides to its customers.
- The Council could, however, opt to direct staff to further amend the proposed IRP. Fiscal Impact
| Attachments: | 1. Council Report, 2. Presentation, 3. Resolution, 4. 2024 Integrated Resource Plan - City of Mesa |
MONDAY 27 JAN
Monday, January 27, 2025 5:15 PM Study Session
Roll Call
1 Review and discuss items on the agenda for the January 27, 2025 regular
Council meeting.
2 Presentations/Action Items:
2-a 25-0114 Appointments to various boards and committees.
3 Current events summary including meetings and conferences attended.
4 Scheduling of meetings.
5 Convene an Executive Session.
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Discussion or consultation for legal advice with the City Attorney. (A.R.S.
§38-431.03(A)(3)) Discussion or consultation with the City Attorney in order
to consider the City’s position and instruct the City attorney regarding the
City’s position regarding contracts that are the subject of negotiations.
(A.R.S. §38-431.03(A)(4)).
1. Negotiations concerning the terms and conditions related to the potential
transfer of land to the City of Mesa.
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