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ORDINANCE NO
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AN ORDINANCE INCREASING THE ESTIMATED RECEIPTS IN THE GENERAL FUND 01, POLICE
DEPARTMENT, SPECIAL OPERATIONS DIVISION, IN THE AMOUNT OF $14,553, AND APPROPRIATING
SAID AMOUNT TO THE GENERAL FUND 01, POLICE DEPARTMENT, SPECIAL OPERATIONS DIVISION,
ACCOUNT NO 35-44-00, THEREBY INCREASING APPROPRIATIONS IN THE GENERAL FUND 01, BY THE
SAME AMOUNT FOR THE PURPOSE OF PURCHASE OF AUDIO PROCESSING EQUIPMENT FOR USE BY THE
POLICE DEPARTMENT, PROVIDING FOR A SEVERABILITY CLAUSE, MAKING THIS ORDINANCE
CUMULATIVE OF PRIOR ORDINANCES AND REPEALING ALL PRIOR ORDINANCES IN CONFLICT
HEREWITH; PROVIDING FOR ENGROSSMENT AND ENROLLMENT, AND PROVIDING AN EFFECTNE DATE.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FORT WORTH, TEXAS
SECTION 1
That in addition to those amounts allocated to the various City departments for the
Fiscal Year 1989 and in the Budget of the City Manager, there shall also be increased
estimated receipts in the General Fund 01, Police Department, Special Operations Division,
in the .amount of $14,553, and appropriating said amount to the General Fund 01, Account
No 35-44-00, thereby increasing appropriations in the General Fund 01, by the same
amount for the purchase of audio processing equipment for use by the Police Department.
SECTION 2
Should any portion, section or part of a section of this ordinance be declared invalid,
inoperative or void for any reason by a court of competent jurisdiction, such decision,
opinion or judgement shall in no way impair the remaining portions, sections, or parts of
sections of this ordinance, which said remaining provisions shall be and remain in full force
and effect.
SECTION 3
That this ordinance shall be cumulative of Ordinance No 10151 and all other
ordinances and appropriations amending the same except in those instances where the
provisions of this ordinance are in direct conflict with such other ordinances and
appropriations, in which instance said conflicting provisions of said prior ordinances and
appropriations are hereby expressly repealed
SECTION 4
The City Secretary of the City of Fort Worth is hereby directed to engross and enroll
this ordinance by copying the caption and effective date into the minutes of the City Council
and by filing this ordinance in the ordinance records of the City of Fort Worth
SECTION 5
This ordinance shall take effect and be in full force and effect from and after the date
of its passage, and it is so ordained
APPROVED AS TO FORM^ D LEGALITY
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POIIClADMINt i~1~1A.1 REFERENCE SUBJECT PURCHASE OF AUDIO PAGE
NUMBER PROCESSING EQUIPMENT 2
9-26-89 ~ G-8236
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RECOMMENDATION•
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It is recommended that the City Council
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1. Accept in the General Fund O1 $14,553 from income earned from
restitution payments, sales and auctions, refunds and recoveries of drug
related cash and equipment, and
2. Adopt the attached supplemental appropriations ordinance increasing
estimated receipts by $14,553 in General Fund O1 and appropriations by
the same amount in General Fund O1, Police Special Operations Division
Account No. 35-44-00 from increased revenues, and
3. Authorize the expenditure of $27,5.14 for purchase of Audio Processing
Equipment for Police Department use.
DISCUSSION
The Special Operations Division of the Fort Worth Police Department along
with several other divisions of `the Police Department use audio and video
tapes for information and intelligence gathering. In 1988 the Special
Operations Division alone made in excess of 600 audio and video tapes f or use
as evidence in court. These tapes have proven to be an essential tool in the
conviction of criminals. Most of these tapes, due to the varied locations
where they are made, have background noise and other sounds that make them
hard to understand or transcribe. A prime example of this was the tapes made
on the Billy Ray Maddox investigation. When played for the jury, several
members of the jury wanted to know why the audio on the tapes was so hard to
understand and why some parts were not understandable at all!
Along with the need to present the best possible tapes for evidence we have
the problem of when one of our secretaries transcribes a tape that has
background noise and other sounds that cover the voice, it takes far too much
of her time because she has to play parts of the tape over and over trying to
understand what is being said. In some cases she cannot understand and has
to type on the transcripts "Not understandable".
With the purchase of the below listed equipment we will be able to do the
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1. -Copy''the original tape into a digital mode.
2. Analyze a tape to find what frequency range the noise is in.
3. Enhance the-voice where it is weak or low volume.
4. Take out noises such as vehicle motor noise, background music, and other
background, noises, transit noises.
5. Copy~the enhanced tape from digital to analog (Standard audio tape).
This ability to enhance and clean up the audio track of a tape is not
available to us anywhere at this time except at the F.B.I. Laboratory in
Virginia. We have to mail them our original copy and take a chance of it
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DATE REFERENCE
NUMBER SUBJECT PURCHASE OF AUDIO PAGE
9-26-89 G-8236 PROCESSING EQUIPMENT ~-,~2,.+or 2 :~ '
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getting lost or damaged in shipping. It also takes several weeks to get the
tape back, thus slowing down an investigation. With the ability to clean up
our own tapes we can keep a better chain of custody on the tapes and also be
able to testify in court to the enhancement of these tapes.
2 - Tascam Digital Records
Model DA-50 @ $3,999 $ 7,988.00
2 - Symetrix Parametric Equalizers
Model SX-201 @ $239 478.00
1 - Ashly Graphic Equalizer
Model GQ 231 1,059.00
1 Symetrix Noise Reduction
' h1odel 511A 639.00
1 - Urel Filter Set
P~odel 565T 1,490.00
1 - Goldline Realtime Analyzer
Model GL30 2,150.00
20 - Digital Audio Tapes 200.00
2 - Tascom Patch Bays
Model IVR111 @ $125 250.00
Patch Cables 100.00
1 - Dimension IV Equipment Rack 199.00
' TOTAL $14,553.00
FINANCING
Upon adoption of recommendations 1 and 2, sufficient funds will be available
in General Fund O1, Police Special Operations Division Account No. 35-44-00
for purchase of Audio Processing Equipment. Expenditures will be made from
index codes 280768 and 280743. Income earned from the various sources will
be deposited in index code 055012.
APPRUYED BY
CITY COUNCIL
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SUBMITTED FOR THE
CITY MANAGER'S s
OFFICE BY Bob Terrell r
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DEPARTMENT HEAD Thomas Windham CIT
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SECRETARY
FOR ADDITIONAU INFORMATION Fla
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