City of Urbana ARMS Policy Board met March 29.
Here is the minutes provided by the Board:
1. Call to Order - The meeting was called to order at 3:34 pm by Chair Walsh.
2. Additions to the Agenda
None.
3. Approval of Minutes
Motion to approve the agenda by Chief Morgan, seconded by Chief Myrick.
The minutes passed unanimously.
4. Public Input - There was none.
5. Staff Report
eCitations – update
o Sanford summarized recent testing by Lt. Shaw, which resulted in a list of issues with Quicket that were categorized as bugs, annoying, requests, and questions.
o Sanford asked for guidance from the Policy Board on whether to invest more work effort in Quicket.
o Sheriff Walsh asked if stopping work would violate the agreement.
o Sanford said that he will present the results to Katie Blakeman and discuss how to proceed.
Development update
o Dave described how that a package of small changes to Case Management will be added to ARMS the first week of March.
RMS Procurement
o Sanford proposed that the conversation be postponed to New Business.
6. Reports of committees and officers.
There were none.
7. Unfinished business.
ARMS 2019 Budget
o Sanford asked for guidance on objections to the budget.
o Sanford presented a summary of the budget changes:
The ratio of badge counts was changed to include Rantoul and CCSO.
Additional money for the new programmer.
o The group discussed how successful the new programmer could be at maintaining and improving ARMS.
o The Budget was tabled pending New Business.
8. New Business
NIBRS Reporting and Grant
o Chief Jones described the grant application completed by the CCSO, which which
could be used to offset personnel costs for NIBRS programming.
o December 31, 2021 is the deadline to move to NIBRS – no matter what.
o Chief Morgan made a motion to direct the use of ARMS Staff to support the
CCSO grant application, seconded by Chief Cobb. Passed unanimously.
RMS Replacement
o Discussing the deadline for NIBRS led the group to discuss RMS replacement.
o Sanford presented a schedule to start RMS replacement in July 2019. This would allow an upgrade by 2021. The RFP needs to be written by January.
o Sanford suggested spending $7,500 for Illinois Business Consulting to prepare requirements from ARMS Users.
FY 2019 Budget
o The group discussed assumptions about the budget, and about scenarios to reduce personnel costs in the 3rd and 4th quarters.
o Chief Myrick made a motion to postpone the budget to a special meeting.
Seconded by Chief Morgan. Passed unanimously.
o The group scheduled a special meeting for April 11 at 8:00 AM.
9. Adjournment.
The meeting adjourned at 4:54 PM.
o Having reached the end of the agenda, Chair Walsh adjourned the meeting.
https://www.urbanaillinois.us/sites/default/files/attachments/2018_03_29%20-%20ARMS_Policy_Board_Minutes.pdf
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