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MINE.[1. Meeting called to order]
EVERYBODY, 12 O'CLOCK.UM, OUR NUMBERS ARE SMALL TODAY, BUT WE ARE MIGHTY AND THAT'S ALL THAT MATTERS.
AND WE'RE HERE TO DO, UM, GET A GREAT PRESENTATION.
I KNOW, BUT I AM GOING TO CALL THIS MEETING THIS REGULARLY.
SCHEDULE A MEETING OF THE MUNICIPAL SERVICE DISTRICT ADVISORY COMMITTEE TO ORDER AND ASK HIM TO HAVE THE ROLL CALL, PLEASE.
UM, AFTER THE ROLL CALL BEING CALLED, UM, LET THE RECORDS STAND THAT WE ARE, WE DO NOT HAVE A QUORUM.
[3. Approval of Minutes – 2.17.26 Meeting]
OUR AGENDA WAS THE APPROVAL OF THE MINUTES OF OUR, UH, FEBRUARY 17TH MEETING.UM, IF ANYBODY HAS ANY COMMENTS, YOU CERTAINLY NEED MAKE THEM, IF THERE'S ANY CHANGES OR CORRECTIONS, WE JUST CAN'T FORMALLY ADOPT THEM AT THIS MEETING.
SO DO YOU HAVE SOME CHANGES? YES, I DO.
UNDER MS. D NEW PROJECT PROPOSAL, IN THE DISCUSSION ABOUT TODAY, UM, TODAY THERE WAS A, A DISCUSSION BACK AND FORTH THAT JOHN HARSON WAS VERY MUCH A PART OF THAT DISCUSSION AS WELL.
UM, AND NOT IN FAVOR OF THE SOUND SYSTEM.
IT'S JUST NOT NOTED IN THE SUMMARY.
WE NEED TO GO BACK AND CHECK THAT ON THE, SO MAKE THOSE NOTES AGAIN.
JOHN HAROLDSON WAS NOT IN FAVOR, CORRECT? I WASN'T REALLY EITHER SURVEILLANCE, UM, I WAS MORE INTERESTED IN OKAY.
FOR THE, AND THAT WASN'T MENTIONED EITHER.
AGAIN, WE CAN'T CALL FOR A MOTION, SO, UM, I'LL MOVE BACK TO THE NEXT MEETING.
[4. Presentation by Michael Eagen, Stonehaven Sight & Sound Re: Downtown Sound System]
ON TO THE LEAD OF THE PRESENTATION TODAY.AND, UM, DURING THE MAIN STREET CONFERENCE, OF COURSE, WE HAD SO MANY WONDERFUL VOTE LEADERS.
KUDOS TO, UH, KAREN AND THE SWISS BAY TEAM FOR BRINGING THAT WONDERFUL CONFERENCE TO OUR CITY.
UH, IT WAS, THE CONVENTION CENTER WAS JUST BUZZING.
IT WAS GREAT AND HAD LOTS OF GREAT VENDORS.
AND AS JOHNNY ROBINSON, MYSELF AND V WE WALKED AROUND A LITTLE BIT.
UH, WE MET THE, THE GENTLEMAN THAT ARE HERE TODAY FROM STONEHAVEN SITE AND SOUND AND TALK TO THEM ABOUT, UM, A DOWNTOWN AUDIO SYSTEM.
WE HAD BEEN LOOKING AT ONE FOR YEARS, UM, PROBABLY IT'S BEEN MAYBE FOUR YEARS AGO, FOUR OR FIVE YEARS AGO.
WE WERE LOOKING, AND, YOU KNOW, THE ISSUE WAS THE TECHNOLOGY AND THE TECHNOLOGY HAS REALLY CHANGED TO THE POINT WHERE WIRELESS, WE DON'T HAVE TO DIG TUNNELS AND ALL THAT KIND OF GOOD STUFF.
SO WE THOUGHT THIS WAS A GREAT OPPORTUNITY TO BRING THEM IN AND AT LEAST HEAR THE PRESENTATION, FIND OUT WHAT IT IS AND WHAT IT ISN'T.
AND THIS IS A INFORMATION ONLY, AND THAT'S WHAT WE HEAR, AND NOT HEAR AND VOTE ON ANYTHING TO MOVE IT FORWARD OR ANYTHING.
UM, FOSTER HAS BEEN IN TOUCH WITH THE GENTLEMAN.
WE'RE JUST HERE TO GET INFORMATION.
AND THEN, UM, FOSTER, THERE'S, THEY ACTUALLY HAVE THIS SAME, UM, SYSTEM IN MONROE, NORTH CAROLINA.
AND SO FOSTER'S PLANNING A TRIP TO MONROE TO ACTUALLY LOOK AT IT, SEE HOW IT WORKS, AND THEN MAKE RECOMMENDATIONS.
SO WE'LL HEAR MORE ABOUT THIS PROBABLY AT OUR AUGUST MEETING.
THAT WOULD BE OUR NEXT MEETING.
UH, AND HOPEFULLY THEN ALDERMAN FERGUSON WOULD BE, UH, INDEPENDENCE AS WELL AS, UH, FOSTER, IF YOU TALK MORE THAT BACK.
SO WITHOUT HESITATION, I'D LIKE TO INTRODUCE MICHAEL EGAN WITH STONEHAVEN SIGHT AND SOUND.
AND MICHAEL, YOU CAN INTRODUCE YOURSELF AND YOUR COMPANY, AND I'LL LET YOU GO AHEAD WITH THE PRESENTATION.
ONE MORE NOTE I WANNA MAKE THAT THIS IS BEING RECORDED.
AND SO, UH, WE WILL MAKE SURE THAT ANY OF THE SLIDES AND THE RECORDING GET SHARED AMONG THE OTHER MEMBERS.
AND OF COURSE, THEY POSTED, I GUESS, TO THE WEBSITE OR WHATEVER.
SO IT'S INFORMATION SINCE THIS, THIS IS A PUBLIC MEETING.
SO SKIP AND I HAVE BEEN, UH, WORKING ON, UH, YOU KNOW, ADVANCING THIS WIRELESS TECHNOLOGY, AND WE HAD A GREAT TIME AT THE, UH, AT THE CONFERENCE.
AND, UH, WE'RE PLEASED TO MEET SABRINA AND V AND, UH, MIC MIKE LEE AND, UH, A COUPLE OF OTHER FOLKS ACTUALLY, I
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THINK THAT, UH, THAT WE MET AS WELL.SO, UM, LIKE, LIKE, UH, WE, WE MENTIONED, YOU KNOW, THIS IS INFORMATION ONLY, UH, SKIP AND I TRIED TO PUT TOGETHER THE, UH, A ROUGH ORDER OF DESIGN.
UH, WE'LL GET INTO AS, AS WE GO THROUGH SOME OF THESE THINGS, UM, UH, BASED ON GOOGLE MAPS AND OUR TRIP DOWN, UH, FROM, UH, FROM THE NEWBURGH CONFERENCE.
SO, UH, LOTS OF VARIABILITY, LOTS OF ADJUSTMENTS THAT CAN BE MADE.
UH, THIS IS JUST A SORT OF A, AN ART OF THE POSSIBLE TYPE OF CONVERSATION HERE TODAY.
SO, UM, STONEHAVEN, UH, VETERAN OWNED AND OPERATED, UH, I LIKE TO USE THIS TAGLINE, ALTHOUGH IT MAKES SKIP CRINGE A LITTLE BIT FROM RADAR ARRAYS TO DOWNTOWN VAS.
SO, UH, SKIP WAS IN THE NAVY AND WAS A FIREMAN CONTROLLER, UH, FOCUSED PRIMARILY ON, UH, RADAR.
UM, AND ENSURING, UM, ENSURING THAT THE TARGETS WERE WERE MET SUCCESSFULLY.
HE LEARNED A TREMENDOUS AMOUNT WHILE IN THE NAVY AND WAS ABLE TO APPLY HIS LOGIC, UM, AND, UH, AND KNOWLEDGE, UM, FROM RADAR ARRAYS TO SOUND.
UH, THE SOUND WAVES AND RADAR WAVES ARE VERY SIMILAR IN NATURE, ALTHOUGH DIFFERENT WAVELENGTHS.
UM, AND SO HE'S BEEN ABLE TO APPLY THAT.
AND FOR THE LAST 30 YEARS, HE'S BEEN, UH, RUNNING THIS BUSINESS UNDER A NUMBER OF DIFFERENT BANNERS, PRIMARILY FOCUSED IN ON CHURCHES, SCHOOLS, OUTDOORS, AMPHITHEATERS, ATHLETIC FACILITIES AND PARKS AND MUNICIPALITIES.
MOST RECENTLY, UM, HE'S GOT TREMENDOUS BRAND NAME, BELIEVE IT OR NOT, WITHIN THE, UH, RURAL COMMUNITIES OF NORTH AND SOUTH CAROLINA.
UM, CHURCHES KNOW STONEHAVEN BY NAME.
THEY KNOW, UH, QUALITY THAT HE BRINGS.
UH, AND, UM, IT'S, IT'S REALLY, UH, IT'S QUITE A, QUITE, QUITE AN HONOR TO BE PART OF THE, UH, THE, THE TEAM HERE.
UM, RECENTLY, UH, WE'VE SHIFTED GEARS.
UH, I GUESS IT WAS ABOUT FOUR OR FIVE YEARS AGO.
SKIP WAS APPROACHED, UH, BY RE UH, LOCAL MUNICIPALITY, UM, TO TALK ABOUT WIRELESS SOUND SYSTEMS. AND, UM, AND SO, UH, WE ENDED UP PITCHING THAT BID, UH, THAT JOB, BUT DID NOT, UH, THE, THE TOWN DECIDED NOT TO MOVE FORWARD, UH, WITH THAT INSTALLATION.
AND THEN RECENTLY, IN THE LAST COUPLE OF YEARS, UH, MONROE HAS APPROACHED US AND WE WERE SUCCESSFUL AT, UH, INSTALLING, UH, THIS TECH NOMAD, UH, SYSTEM THAT WE'RE GONNA DEMONSTRATE HERE FOR YOU TODAY IN MONROE, NORTH CAROLINA, THEY'RE COVERING ROUGHLY A SQUARE MILES, A LITTLE BIT UNDER ITS LITTLE PLUS AND MINUS BECAUSE THEY HAVE, UH, SOMEWHAT, THEY HAVE A COUPLE OF, UH, ALLEYS THAT ARE VERY SIMILAR TO YOUR BEAR PLAZA, UH, AREA.
AND YOUR REED, UH, WHAT IS IT, UH, JOHN REED LANE, UM, AREA.
AND SO, UH, IT'S A, IT IS NOT EXACTLY A, A SQUARE MILE, BUT VERY SIMILAR IN NATURE TO WHAT YOU GUYS ARE LOOKING AT.
UM, TECH NOMAD IS THE, UH, THE PRODUCT THAT WE'RE, UH, WE'RE TALKING ABOUT HERE TODAY.
UM, THEY'VE BEEN AROUND FOR YEARS.
UM, THEY'RE PRIMARILY FOCUSED IN ON, UH, WIRED AND THEIR SOUND SYSTEMS. THEIR, THEIR SPEAKER ENCLOSURES ARE WIDELY USED WITHIN THE MARINE COMMUNITY FOR SHIPBOARD RADIOS.
UH, THEY'RE EXTREMELY WELL PROTECTED, UH, FROM THE ELEMENTS, UH, RAIN, UH, WIND, DUST, UH, PARTICLES, ALL VERY, UH, VERY HIGH END.
UM, THE ARCHITECTURE THAT WE'RE PROPOSING IS A DISTRIBUTED ARCHITECTURE, UH, MEANING THAT YOU DON'T HAVE A CENTRALIZED AMPLIFIER THAT THEN BROADCAST THE SIGNAL OUT OVER WIRES.
WHAT YOU HAVE IS YOU HAVE A, UH, UH, A NETWORK, UM, AN IP NETWORK EFFECTIVELY THAT YOU'RE BROADCASTING TO WHEREVER YOU WANT TO PLACE SPEAKERS.
AND THEN AT EACH OF THOSE LOCATIONS, YOU'LL HAVE A RECEIVER.
EFFECTIVELY, THIS GRAY BOX OVER HERE IS A CHITON THAT IS BASICALLY PLUGGING INTO YOUR NETWORK.
AND NOW THAT RECEIVER ACTUALLY HAS A AMPLIFIER BUILT INTO IT AND IS ABLE TO DISTRIBUTE IN THAT LOCATION.
SO, UH, IT'S A LOT EASIER AND SIMPLER TO TRANSMIT, UH, UH, UH, A, UH, A DIGITAL SIGNAL, UM, VIA NETWORK CABLE THAN IT IS TO TRANSMIT AUDIO THAT HAS SIGNAL LOSS AND EVERYTHING ELSE.
SO, UM, THIS IS A NET DEAL INSTALLATION FOR NEWBURN FOR A COUPLE DIFFERENT REASONS.
YOU'RE NOT GONNA HAVE TO DO A STREET DIGGING.
I THINK, SABRINA, YOU MENTIONED THAT.
SO, UM, WE CAN USE THE COMPLETE WIRELESS CAPABILITIES, UH, MINIMAL TRAFFIC, UH, IN, UH, OBSTRUCTIONS.
UH, DURING THE INSTALLATION, WE REALLY ONLY NEED A, UH, I THINK WE USED IT LIKE A 30 BY 30 SQUARE AROUND THE POLE THAT WE WERE INSTALLING AT THAT MOMENT.
UM, AND SO, YOU KNOW, AS FAR AS YOU KNOW, DISRUPTIONS, I THINK IT'S LESS THAN WHAT YOU GUYS HAVE GOING ON RIGHT NOW WITH THE TREE TRIMMING DOWN ON, UH, UM, UH, I THINK IT'S MIDDLE STREET RIGHT NOW.
SO, UM, VERY, VERY SMALL DISRUPTION, UM, TO STREET TRAFFIC.
UM, THE AUDIO DELAYS CAN BE, CAN BE, UH, TAILORED, UH, FOR A LARGE AREA.
SO NORMALLY YOU WOULD HAVE, UH, UH, AND SOME SYSTEMS, YOU HAVE THE, THE SOUND BEING
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BROADCAST, AND EACH RADIO IS SLIGHTLY, MAYBE A SECOND OFF, HALF A SECOND OFF.SO IF YOU WALK DOWN THE STREET, YOU START TO HEAR DIFFERENT, UH, YOU HEAR THE SAME MUSIC REPEATED A SECOND OR TWO DELAYED.
THIS SYSTEM ALLOWS YOU TO CONFIGURE THOSE DELAYS TO THE LOCATIONS THAT THEY'RE INSTALLED IN SO THAT YOU DON'T GET THAT AS YOU'RE WALKING DOWN THE STREET.
YOU'RE STILL HEARING RU OFF THE RED NOSE REINDEER, UH, CONSISTENTLY AS YOU'RE WALKING.
UM, AND THEN THE LAST THING THAT I'LL NOTE IS THAT IT'S DESIGNED FOR FUTURE EXPANSION.
YOU CAN EXPAND THE NETWORK TO COVER ANOTHER SQUARE BLOCK.
YOU CAN EXPAND, UH, IF YOU NEED ANOTHER SPEAKER IN THAT VIC, IN THE VICINITY OF THE NETWORK, YOU CAN INSTALL A NEW SPEAKER AND PLUG IT INTO THE NETWORK.
SO IT'S VERY MODULAR IN THAT YOU COULD START IT WITH A VERY RELATIVELY SMALL LOCATION.
UH, WE COULD START IT AT, YOU KNOW, WE EFFECTIVELY, EFFECTIVELY COULD JUST, YOU KNOW, START WITH YOUR PARKS, RIGHT? YOUR BEAR PLAZA AND YOUR RE REED LANE.
YOU COULD FOCUS IN ON DIRECTLY ON THOSE PARTICULAR AREAS FIRST AND THEN GROW INTO, UH, COVERAGE OF THE WHOLE STREET.
UH, IT'S ALL VERY, UH, MODULAR.
UH, SKIP WAS, WAS, UH, HIGHLIGHTING THE FACT THAT IT'S ALMOST LIKE BUILDING LEGOS.
UM, AND SO ONCE YOU GET THAT INITIAL, UH, SETUP, IT'S, IT'S REALLY EASY TO, TO SWING.
UM, SO FOR THE PROPOSED, UH, PROPOSAL THAT WE PUT TOGETHER TODAY.
NOW KEEP IN MIND THESE PHASES ARE THESE ARE, THESE ARE JUST PROPOSALS BASED ON WHAT WE LOOKED AT ON GOOGLE EARTH.
WE'VE HAD BRIEF CONVERSATIONS WITH, WITH FOSTER ABOUT WHAT AREAS THAT HE WANTED TO TARGET.
THE UPPER RIGHT CORNER THERE IS KIND OF THE HIGHLIGHTED THAT FOSTER HAD GIVEN US AS FAR AS WHAT WE MIGHT TRY TO TARGET FOR, UH, FOR INITIAL, UH, COVERAGE.
UM, AND SO WHAT SKIP AND I DID IS WE KIND OF LOOKED, UH, THROUGH, THROUGH GOOGLE EARTH TRYING TO IDENTIFY LOGICAL GROUPINGS OF, UH, AREAS THAT WE MIGHT SEPARATE OUT.
UH, WE CAME UP WITH THESE PHASES, BUT LIKE I SAID, THERE ARE NO REASON ANY ORDER THAT PHASE ONE OR THAT, UH, WHAT WE THOUGHT WOULD BE A PHASE ONE.
WE'LL GO INTO IT IN A LITTLE BIT MORE DETAIL HERE IN A MOMENT.
BUT EFFECTIVELY COVERING, UH, WE WOULD INSTALL, UH, THE PRIMARY EQUIPMENT INTO CITY HALL.
UM, THAT WOULD, IT CONSIST OF A, BASICALLY A, A, A SERVER RACK THAT WOULD INSTALL ON A WALL, WOULD HAVE ALL OF YOUR, YOUR STARTING POINTS, UH, INFORMATION THERE, AND THEN THAT UP FOR THE NETWORK.
AND THEN THE NETWORK WOULD BE BROADCAST FROM THERE.
WE WERE THINKING THAT IT WOULD BROADCAST TOWARDS MIDDLE STREET AND THEN GO UP AND DOWN MIDDLE STREET, UM, FOR THAT FIRST PHASE.
WE COULD GO TO THE PARKS INITIALLY.
REALLY, WHATEVER YOU GUYS WANTED TO DO.
UM, I THINK YOU WOULD WANT TO TRY TO PINPOINT WHERE YOU WANT YOUR STARTING POINT TO BE.
I THINK IT'S GONNA BE C CITY HALL, OR I THINK IT COULD BE CITY HALL.
IT COULD ALSO BE THIS BUILDING.
THIS IS ON THE, ON THE ROUTE AS WELL, SO OTHER OPTIONS AS WELL.
SO, UM, BEAR PLAZA, JAMES REED LANE, UH, FRONT STREET AND CRAVEN STREET WERE THE OTHER BREAKOUTS FOR THE DIFFERENT PHASES THAT WE, UH, THAT WE SUGGESTED.
AND WE'LL GO THROUGH THOSE HERE IN A LITTLE BIT.
UM, WE ALL WANTED TO, YOU KNOW, I I WENT BACK AND FORTH WITH FOSTER ABOUT, YOU KNOW, PUTTING NUMBERS ON PAGES 'CAUSE I DIDN'T WANT TO EITHER SCARE YOU OR, UH, THINK, YEAH, THIS IS, THIS IS THE NUMBER THAT IT'S GONNA BE.
THESE ARE ROUND NUMBERS THAT WE'RE TRYING TO JUST SORT OF GIVE A SENSE FOR WHAT SOMETHING LIKE THIS WOULD COST.
UH, WE DID THIS ON GOOGLE EARTH.
UH, WE WALKED A LITTLE BIT THIS MORNING.
WE REALIZED, EH, IN THIS PARTICULAR LOCATION, YOU'RE PROBABLY GONNA NEED ADDITIONAL SPEAKER, UH, COVERAGE, UH, AND WE MIGHT NEED BOUNCE RADIO SIGNALS ACROSS.
WE ALSO NOTED THAT WE MIGHT BE ABLE TO USE THE CLOCK TOWER ON CITY HALL, CITY HALL TO AVOID SOME RADIO USAGE.
SO IF YOU GUYS WERE TO BE INTERESTED IN MOVING FORWARD, WHAT SKIP AND I WOULD DO IS WE WOULD COME AND DO AN EXTENSIVE ONSITE SURVEY TO MAKE SURE THAT YOU'RE GONNA HAVE THE RIGHT SPEAKER COVERAGE AND THE RIGHT NETWORK COVERAGE TO BE ABLE TO, TO COVER THE AREA THAT YOU'RE TRYING TO TARGET IN YOUR FIRST PHASE.
BUT THAT CENTRAL, UH, MODULE COST IS, YOU KNOW, ROUGHLY $6,000.
AND THAT'S GONNA COVER YOUR, YOUR MICROPHONES, YOUR, UH, YOUR, YOUR, UH, BROADCASTING, UH, SCHEDULE ON, UH, APPARATUS, UH, THE, THE POWER, UH, THE, UH, THE POWER UNIT, THE, UM, THE SERVER RACK ITSELF.
AND THEN THE NETWORKING START AT PRESUMABLY THE TOP OF THE BUILDING IN SOME WAY, SHAPE, OR FORM BROADCAST TO YOUR FIRST LOCATION.
UM, WHICH EFFECTIVELY THAT SPEAKER, THAT FIRST SPEAKER LOCATION WILL COST YOU ROUGHLY $5,000.
SO WHEREVER THAT IS, THAT'S ROUGHLY FOR TWO SPEAKERS.
UH, THEY CAN BE CONFIGURED, UH, DIRECTLY OPPOSING EACH OTHER TO COVER 180 DEGREES.
THEY CAN BE POINTED AT A VERY SPECIFIC DIRECTION.
UM, THEY CAN BE ANGLED UP OR ANGLED DOWN.
THESE ARE VERY DIRECTIONAL SPEAKERS AND WE'LL DEMONSTRATE THAT IN A MOMENT.
SO IF YOU HAVE A PARTICULAR BUSINESS THAT DOES NOT WANT NECESSARILY TO HEAR A HIGH VOLUME, HIGH VOLUME, YOU CAN ACTUALLY TURN THE VOLUME DOWN ON ONE OF THESE CHITONS INDIVIDUALLY.
YOU CAN ALSO SORT OF AIM IT, UM, BECAUSE WHEN YOU AIM
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IT AWAY FROM YOU, YOU STILL HEAR IT, BUT IT IS A LOT LESS, UH, LOT LESS OBSTRU OF, UH, INTRUSIVE, UH, RADIOS.SO WE TALKED ABOUT, UH, WITH FOSTER ABOUT THE RADIO SIGNALS.
SO THESE RADIOS THAT WE'RE USING OVER HERE ON THE LEFT HAND SIDE, UM, THE CIRCLES THERE, THEY ARE, UH, THEY'RE A NARROW BEAM RADIO, UM, SO THAT THEY DON'T INTERFERE WITH ANY OF YOUR, UH, LOCAL WIFIS, UH, FOR YOUR BUSINESSES OR ANYTHING.
SO THEY'RE GOING TO GO IN ONE SPECIFIC DIRECTION.
NOW THE NEGATIVE TO THAT IS THAT, UH, IN THAT ONE SPECIFIC DIRECTION, YOU HAVE TO HAVE LINE OF SIGHT.
SO FOLIAGE, LEAVES, BUILDINGS IN THE WAY NOT GONNA WORK.
SO THE WAY WE WOULD BACK, THE WAY WE WOULD, UH, TRAVERSE THE SIGNAL DOWN THE STREET IS EFFECTIVELY TO BOUNCE THE SIGNAL FROM RADIO TO RADIO CROSSING THE STREET.
'CAUSE THERE'S USUALLY NO OBSTRUCTIONS WITHIN THE STREET ITSELF.
SO ON TOWNS LIKE, UH, MONROE, YOU GUYS WILL GO SEE, THEY HAVE VERY LITTLE FOLIAGE THAT ARE DIRECTLY ALONG THE STREETS.
SO BEING ABLE TO BOUNCE 'EM FROM, UM, I THINK WE DID A BLOCK AND A HALF ACTUALLY IS NO PROBLEM.
THESE RADIOS WILL REACH UP TO TWO OR THREE MILES.
UM, SO IF THEY HAVE A LINE OF SIGHT, IT'S, IT'S, IT'S FAIRLY SIMPLE.
NOW, YOUR MIDDLE STREET AND IS IT CRAVEN, CRAVEN, CRAVEN, UH, THOSE ARE GONNA BE MUCH MORE OF A CHALLENGE BECAUSE OF THE FOLIAGE THAT ARE IN PLACE RIGHT NOW.
SO WHAT WE'LL DO IS, WE'LL, WE'LL BOUNCE THAT RADIO SIGNAL ACROSS THE STREET, ZIGZAG IN A ZIGZAG PATTERN TO OUR LOCATIONS, TO, UH, TO TRANSMIT THE SIGNAL.
THE OTHER THING THAT WE NOTICED THIS MORNING THAT I WONDER ABOUT, UM, ONE AREA THAT IS A COMPLETE LINE OF SIGHT IS THE, UH, THE ACTUAL STREET LIGHTS THEMSELVES.
I NOTICED YOU HAVE A PARKING SIGN INSTALLED IN BETWEEN THE TWO STREET LIGHTS.
IF WE COULD MOUNT ONE OF THESE RADIOS TO THE TOP OF THAT, UH, THAT LIGHT, THAT LIGHT, ALL PRETTY MUCH ALL OF YOUR LIGHTS CAN SEE EACH OTHER.
SO THAT WOULD BE A REALLY EFFICIENT WAY FOR ME TO TRANSMIT THE NETWORK TO THOSE LOCATIONS.
AGAIN, WE'D STILL NEED TO TALK THROUGH EXACTLY WHERE THE SPEAKERS LOCATIONS ARE GONNA BE, AND I NEED TO GET LINE OF SIGHT TO THOSE LOCATIONS AS WELL.
BUT HOPEFULLY THIS GIVES YOU A SENSE FOR HOW THE, THE, THE RADIO TRANSMITS IT SIGNAL AS WELL.
AND THEN CREW COSTS ROUGHLY ABOUT $2,500 A DAY.
WE CREATE, WELL, WE'VE GOT TWO GUYS, UH, THAT ARE WORKING UP ON THE LIFT.
WE'VE GOT SAFETY ADVISORS, WE'VE GOT PROJECT COORDINATORS, AND WE'VE GOT INDIVIDUALS THAT ARE ASSEMBLING THE COMPONENTS.
SO IT'S A, IT IS A REALLY GOOD, WELL TUNED Q UH, Q UH, CREW THAT IS GEARED TOWARDS ENSURING THE SAFETY OF NOT ONLY OURSELVES, BUT ALSO PEDESTRIANS THAT ARE WALKING BY, UM, DURING THE INSTALLATION.
QUESTIONS, BEFORE I GET INTO THE DETAILS OF THE INDIVIDUAL, UH, PHASES ON THE LIFT, IF THE CITY WERE TO HAVE ITS OWN LIFT THEY COULD PROVIDE FOR YOU, THAT WOULD JUST TAKE OFF THE BOTTOM LINE.
LIFTS WE DON'T REALLY, REALLY APPLY ANY COSTS FOR, WE DON'T REALLY APPLY ANY COST.
YEAH, WE DON'T APPLY ANY COSTS.
IF WE NEED TO DO, WE USE UNITED RENTALS, BUT I, YOU KNOW, IF YOU'VE GOT IT, THAT'S GREAT.
CITY RUN FOR DOLLAR DAY OR SOMETHING.
UM, ANY OTHER QUESTION? IT'S, UH, ARTICULATING BOOM LIFT, TYPICALLY 30, 35 FOOT ARTICULATING, BOOM.
THINK YOU THINK WE GOT A HUNDRED FOOTER.
I'M GUESSING HE HAS A COMPANY.
ANY OTHER QUESTIONS BEFORE WE GO ON? ALRIGHT, SO THIS PHASE ONE, TWO, AND DON'T BE DISCOURAGED BY THE NUMBERS, IT'S JUST THE STARTING POINT.
THAT CENTRAL MODULE COSTS $6,000.
UH, WE THOUGHT THAT THE SPEAKERS, WHAT YOU CAN SEE ON THE IMAGE, WHAT I'VE TRIED TO, I DON'T KNOW HOW IT'S GOING UP.
OH YEAH, IT'S NOT TOO BAD ON THE SCREEN.
UM, THE LITTLE SQUIGGLY CIRCLES THERE ARE WHERE WE'RE TALKING ABOUT.
SO THAT YELLOW CIRCLE THERE IS THAT CITY HALL.
THAT'S WHERE WE PROPOSED TO PUT THE SERVER RACK AND THEN EFFECTIVELY WE WOULD BOUNCE THE SIGNAL, UH, DOWN, SORRY, P*****K STREET.
UM, IT, IT, IT BOUNCED THE SIGNAL DOWN P*****K STREET TO THAT CORNER.
AND THEN, UM, EACH OF THOSE GREEN, UH, THOSE GREEN CIRCLES WOULD BE SPEAKER LOCATIONS.
UM, WHAT WE NOTICED WHEN WE WALKED, UM, THIS MORNING IS WE THINK THAT THE SPEAKER LOCATION, UM, BEAR WITH ME ONE SECOND.
WE BELIEVE THAT THE SPEAKER LOCATION BETWEEN THIS POINT AND THIS POINT IS TOO FAR.
WE THINK THERE'S GONNA BE ANOTHER SPEAKER THAT'S GONNA BE REQUIRED RIGHT THERE.
OTHERWISE YOU'RE NOT GONNA HAVE THAT IMMERSIVE.
THIS, WHEN WE LOOKED AT THIS IN GOOGLE, IT LOOKED A LITTLE BIT, UH, IT LOOKED KIND OF LIKE IT WAS THE SAME DISTANCE, BUT WE WEREN'T A HUNDRED PERCENT SURE.
SO, UH, WE'RE PROBABLY GONNA NEED ANOTHER SPEAKER IN THAT PARTICULAR LOCATION, UH, TO COVER THE STREET IN ITS ENTIRETY.
UM, THIS LOCATION DOWN HERE WOULD ONLY HAVE ONE SPEAKER IN KAAN.
UM, AND IT WOULD BE EFFECTIVELY POINTING UP THE STREET, UH, FUTURE PHASES.
WE'D HAVE AN ADDITIONAL SPEAKER THAT WOULD POINT ACROSS, UM, UH, ACROSS, I THINK THAT'S FRONT, SORRY, THIS IS REALLY SMALL FRONT
WE, WE, WE JUST KIND OF GAVE US SOME ROUND NUMBERS, ASSUMING THAT
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THERE WERE SIX RADIOS, UH, IN ADDITION TO THE SPEAKER LOCATIONS, WE THINK THAT'S LOW.BASED ON WALKING IN TODAY, WE THINK WE'RE PROBABLY GONNA HAVE TO BOUNCE A LOT MORE RADIOS, BUT THEY'RE NOT PARTICULARLY EXPENSIVE.
AND, UH, AND RATHER THAN GOING THROUGH, UH, UH, AN EFFORT TO TRY TO GUESS WHAT YOU GUYS WANTED TO DO, FELT LIKE THIS IS AT LEAST ENOUGH TO GIVE YOU GUYS A STARTING POINT.
GET REAL ABOUT WHERE YOU WANT SPEAKERS, WE'LL BE ABLE TO GET REAL ABOUT EXACTLY WHERE WE WOULD PUT RADIOS TO MAKE SURE THAT THEY HAVE A LINE OF SIGHT, UH, CREW COST.
WE FEEL LIKE, UH, THIS PARTICULAR JOB, IF THIS WAS ALL WE DID, WE'D PROBABLY BE ABLE TO DO THIS IN TWO DAYS.
THAT WOULD BE INSTALLING THE, THE EQUIPMENT, UM, UH, AND THE NETWORK STARTING POINT IN CITY HALL.
AND THEN THE FOUR SPEAKER LOCATIONS, ROUGHLY $31,000 FOR THAT PARTICULAR PHASE, IF YOU WENT WITH THOSE SPEAKER LOCATIONS.
YOU MENTIONED THE FACT THAT THE CENTRAL MODULE COST IS ONLY ONE TIME.
UH, LIKE, LIKE SKIP INDICATED THAT CENTRAL MODULE, WHAT WHAT WE INSTALL AT CITY HALL, WITH THE EXCEPTION OF SOME CONFIGURATION, UH, TO ADD ONTO ANY OF THE NEW SPEAKERS.
YOU'RE DONE THAT, UM, THAT WILL GIVE YOU WIRELESS MICROPHONES SO YOU CAN ADDRESS ANY PUBLIC SAFETY ISSUES.
UM, UH, SO, YOU KNOW, WITH SHELTER IN PLACE ORDERS, UH, ANY KIND OF, UH, UH, LIGHTNING STORMS, ANYTHING YOU WOULD WANT TO ANNOUNCE EFFECTIVELY WOULD TAKE PRECEDENCE OVER ANY MUSIC THAT'S BEING PLAYED AT THE TIME.
I THINK THAT'S PART OF THE, UH, THE THOUGHT PROCESS OF PLACING IT WITHIN CITY HALL.
UM, INFERIOR MAYOR WOULD HAVE ACCESS TO BE ABLE TO KIND OF DISTRIBUTE THAT SIGNAL IMMEDIATELY.
UH, AND, AND WHAT, WHAT WOULD HAVE IT WAS, IT WOULD, IT WOULD OVER OVERSPEAK THE, THE, UM, UH, THE RADIO SIGNAL THAT'S BEING BROADCAST AT THAT MOMENT.
SO, UM, LIKE SKIP SAID THAT THAT ONLY IS THAT ONE TIME COST FOR THE, UH, THE MICROPHONES, THE INITIAL, THE SCHEDULING COMPONENTS, UH, THE MIXER, UH, THE POWER, UH, COMPONENT, AND THEN THE SERVER APP.
SO IF THERE'S A SERVICE ISSUE OR WHATEVER, YEAH, SOMETHING'S NOT WORKING, I GUESS WE'D CALL YOU ALL.
WHAT I MEAN, IS THIS UNDER WARRANTY? UH, DO YOU JUST COME BACK AND FIX IT? OR IS THAT WHERE THE, THE MONEY COMES IN BECAUSE EVERY TIME IT BREAKS, IT'S GONNA COST US THREE TIMES THAT, SO NO, NO.
WELL, SO, UM, SO IT, IT, TECHCOM IS A PRETTY REPUTABLE COMPANY, FIRST OF ALL.
SO I I, YOU'RE NOT BUYING, UH, YOU'RE, YOU'RE BUYING TOP OF THE LINE, RIGHT? YOU'RE BUYING, UH, EQUIPMENT THAT'S GONNA LAST.
I HAVE NO DOUBT, NO CON I MEAN, IT IS THE TECH NOMAD INFORMATION.
UH, THE TECH NOMAD WARRANTY IS 10 YEARS FOR MOST OF THEIR COMPONENTS.
I HAVE NO REASON TO THINK THAT IT WOULDN'T LAST ANOTHER, I MEAN, THE ONES THAT WE INSTALLED IN MONROE 20 YEARS AGO WE'RE STILL FUNCTIONING.
I HAVE NO REASON TO BELIEVE THAT THESE WOULDN'T LAST 20 YEARS, PROBABLY MORE.
UM, SO FROM A LONG LONGEVITY PERSPECTIVE, UM, YOU KNOW, AS FAR AS FIXING IT, IT REALLY KIND OF DEPENDS.
UH, WE ACTUALLY HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY, WE DO SERVICE PLANS TO COME BACK ON A REGULAR BASIS, EITHER THAT'S QUARTERLY.
UM, WE CAN DO IT MORE FREQUENTLY.
WE CAN, UM, PLAN, IF YOU REALLY START TO HAVING PROBLEMS. I THINK THAT AS YOU GO TO MONROE AND DO THAT OFFSITE, I THINK YOU CAN GET A SENSE FROM, UH, UM, UH, FROM THE TEAM THERE ON, YOU KNOW, HOW, HOW, WHAT THEIR EXPERIENCE HAS BEEN.
BUT ONCE YOU'RE GONNA SET THIS, I, I DON'T FEEL LIKE YOU'RE GONNA HAVE A TREMENDOUS AMOUNT OF ISSUES.
BUT YES, YOU CAN ALWAYS CALL US.
SO THE RADIOS, I MEAN, THE ONLY INTERFERENCE YOU'D HAVE WOULD BE PHYSICAL, LIKE FOLIAGE, LIKE YOU'RE SAYING, IT WOULDN'T BE ANY KIND OF LIKE RADIO WAVES OR ANYTHING ELSE THAT CAN INTERFERE.
NO, IT'S ALL, IT'S ALL PHYSICAL, UH, PHYSICAL BLOCKAGE.
NOW, THE OTHER THING I'LL NOTE ABOUT THE RADIOS IS THEY'RE LITERALLY, THESE RADIOS FUNCTION JUST LIKE ETHERNET CABLES.
SO THEY, THEY'RE JUST, THEY'RE CALLED THE NETWORK BRIDGE, RIGHT? SO EFFECTIVELY YOU'VE GOT, AND YOU'VE GOT TWO ENDS OF A NETWORK CABLE.
UH, THESE RADIOS FUNCTION LIKE TWO ENDS OF A NETWORK CABLE.
SO THERE'S JUST OBVIOUSLY NOTHING IN BETWEEN.
SO THIS NETWORK IS CLOSED, RIGHT? SO WE ARE NOT SUGGESTING THAT YOU PUT THIS ON THE INTERNET.
WE'RE NOT SUGGESTING YOU HOOK IT UP TO ANY OTHER NETWORK.
DON'T PUT ANY OTHER DEVICES ON THIS NETWORK EFFECT.
IT, IT'S A CLOSED LOOP THAT UNLESS SOMEBODY COMES INTO CITY HALL AND PLUGGED INTO THE NETWORK, YOU'RE RELATIVELY SAFE FROM A SECURITY PERSPECTIVE, UH, UBI OR WHATEVER THEY CALL.
WE'VE, WE'VE USED, UH, A COUPLE OF THESE, UH, DIFFERENT UBIQUITY PRODUCTS.
WE'RE ACTUALLY, UH, THERE'S ANOTHER, UH, VERSION OF THIS, IT'S CALLED SECTOR, UM, THAT ACTUALLY ALLOWS YOU TO, THIS IS A POINT TO POINT.
SO THIS IS ONLY ONE TO ONE EFFECTIVELY, BUT THE SECTOR ALLOWS YOU TO, SO IT POINTS TO MULTI-POINT EFFECTIVELY, AND I CAN POINT IT IN A DIRECTION.
COVERS, UH, 180 DEGREES, UH, SORRY, DOESN'T QUITE COVER UNDER 90 DEGREES.
IT COVERS 90 DEGREES, BUT I CAN CONNECT TO UP TO A HUNDRED DIFFERENT POINTS.
NOT GONNA BE GREAT FOR YOUR PARTICULAR INSTALLATION BECAUSE OF ALL THE VOLTAGE, BUT IF YOU HAD LIKE A HUGE WATER TOWER SOMEWHERE, IT'D BE GREAT
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THE GENERAL LIFE ON, I MEAN, YOU SAID THE ONE IN MONROE THAT'S BEEN IN PLACE FOR A WHILE, BUT LIKE THOSE COMPONENTS RIGHT THERE.WHAT'S THE LIFECYCLE OF THOSE? HMM, THAT'S AN INTERESTING QUESTION.
WELL, IT'S REALLY HARD TO, I CAN TELL YOU NOT FROM THE WIRELESS STANDPOINT, BUT I DO A LOT OF ATHLETIC FIELDS, BIG FOOTBALL STADIUMS AND THINGS, AND WE USE TECH NOMAD, UH, WEDDINGS IN HIGH SCHOOL WAS THE EXAMPLE I CAN USE THE MOST.
UH, IT'S A LARGE FOOTBALL STADIUM, LIKE A COLLEGE FOOTBALL STADIUM.
UH, I'VE HAD TECHED SPEAKERS UP THERE FOR 12 YEARS.
I'VE NEVER HAD TO REVISIT THE SPEAKER, HENCE THE 10 YEAR WARRANTY.
AND TO ALLUDE TO A POINT MIKE MADE EARLIER FROM THE NAVY TOP SIDE SPEAKERS ON A NAVY SHIP ARE VERY IMPORTANT.
THEY'RE ALSO EXPOSED TO EVERYTHING YOU CAN IMAGINE THAT GOES ON OUT AT SEA.
SO I DON'T WORRY ABOUT, UH, HURRICANES, I DON'T WORRY ABOUT ANYTHING THESE FIGURES.
UH, AND MIKE WILL GO TO AT A LATER POINT EXPLAIN ALL THE DIFFERENT WARRANTIES.
SO, ALL RIGHT, PHASE THREE, UM, WE THOUGHT WOULD BE, UH, COVERING BEAR PLAZA.
UM, I UNDERSTAND THAT THERE'S A PROPOSED CONSTRUCTION AREA OR A IMPROVEMENT THAT'S GONNA BE DONE IN THIS, UH, IN THIS PARKING LOT HERE.
UM, AND WE FELT LIKE, UH, THIS WOULD BE A GOOD SORT OF LOGICAL GROUPING OF TWO SETS OF SPEAKERS TO COVER, UH, THAT BEAR PLAZA AREA.
WE DID GO THROUGH IT TODAY AND WE NOTICED THAT WHERE WE WOULD LOVE TO PLACE A SPEAKER AND A A RADIO, THERE'S A BEAUTIFUL BIG TREE, UH, AND TWO POLES THAT ARE KIND OF WRAPPED UP INTO IT THAT WILL NOT WORK BECAUSE I COULD NEVER GET A SIGNAL INTO THAT UNLESS WE TAKE AN ACTUAL WIRE CONNECTION INTO THAT, WHICH YOU CAN TALK ABOUT.
BUT I'M SPECULATING THAT PERHAPS YOU'RE GONNA BE PUTTING MORE STREET POLES IN, IN THIS, UH, IN THIS IMPROVEMENT.
AND IF THAT'S THE CASE, THEN WE MIGHT BE ABLE TO TIE ONTO TO ONE OF THOSE STREET POLE LOCATIONS.
UM, BASICALLY WHAT WE WOULD BE PROPOSING HERE WOULD BE TWO DIFFERENT, UH, TWO DIFFERENT SETS OF SPEAKERS.
SO FOUR SPEAKERS IN TOTAL, AND THOSE GREEN DOT LOCATIONS.
WE FEEL LIKE THAT, UH, UH, THIS, THIS GREEN DOT LOCATION EFFECTIVELY WILL BE ABLE TO BE, WE'D BE POINTING THEM ROUGHLY ON THE ANGLE ON 180 DEGREES COVER, ALL OF, UH, THAT BEAR PARK, UH, SORRY, BEAR PLAZA AREA.
AND THEN THE SAME THING ON THE OTHER SIDE OF, UH, THE PARKING LOT TO COVER EFFECTIVELY THIS, THIS AREA AS WELL.
WE WOULD, BETWEEN THIS SPEAKER AND THAT SPEAKER, WE FEEL LIKE THIS, THIS WHOLE, UH, CENTER SECTION WOULD BE COVERED PRETTY WELL.
GO AHEAD, SKIP, UH, TAKING INTO CONSIDERATION, I NOTICED RESIDENCES THAT ARE THERE.
SO WE RAN, WE HAD THE SAME ISSUE IN MONROE, IN A MORGAN ALLEY LOCATION.
THAT'S WHERE THE EXPERIENCE IN KNOWING HOW TO DO PROPER SPEAKER PLACEMENT, PROVIDING THE DOWN TIL.
SO WHEN WE GIVE IN OUR DEMONSTRATION, I'M GOING TO TURN ONE OF THOSE SPEAKERS AROUND SO YOU HEAR THE DIFFERENCE FROM THE FRONT TO THE BACK.
SO WE KNOW THERE'S RESIDENCES AND IF I LIVE THERE AND I WANTED TO WATCH TV AT SIX O'CLOCK AT NIGHT, I DON'T WANT TO HEAR JIMMY BUFFET BLARING OUTSIDE WHO WE'RE GOING, I UNDERSTAND THAT.
SO SPEAKER WILL BE POINTED DOWN AWAY FROM THE REST OF, AND VOLUME CONTROL IN THE, AND VOLUME CONTROL LOCATION.
SO YOU DON'T HAVE TO HAVE THE BEAR PLAZA VOLUME AT, UH, AT, YOU KNOW, IN AN EXCESSIVELY HIGH LEVEL IF, IF THERE'S RESIDENCE IN THOSE AREAS.
AND THEY CAN BE INDIVIDUALLY PROGRAMMED.
SO IF SOMETHING WAS GOING ON IN BEAR PLAZA, THEY COULD HAVE THE INFORMATION IN BEAR PLAZA AND NOT HAVE TO YEP.
THEY COULD TURN IT UP THERE OR JUST HAVE THAT INFORMATION THERE.
SO THEY'RE ABLE TO DO IT IN DIFFERENT PLACES.
WELL, YOU WOULDN'T BE ABLE TO, CORRECT ME IF I'M WRONG, BUT YOU WOULD NOT BE ABLE TO DISTRIBUTE DIFFERENT SOUND TO ONE SET FROM THE OTHER.
BUT YOU COULD, BUT YOU COULD ADJUST THE VOLUME.
YOU COULD ISOLATE THE VOLUMES.
JIM, DID YOU HAVE A QUESTION? I DON'T KNOW IF YOU'RE RAISING YOUR HANDS.
UM, UM, THAT'S BEAR PLAZA, JAMES REED LANG.
WE FEEL LIKE, UM, I THINK I'VE SAID THAT RIGHT.
THIS IS ANOTHER, UH, UH, PARK RIGHT THERE.
UM, WE WOULD PUT ONE LOCATION THERE, UM, SPEAKERS BASICALLY POINTING ON OPPOSITE ENDS OF EACH OTHER WOULD POINT TOWARDS TO, I THINK THAT'S THE CHURCH, I THINK, UM, ON, ON THE RIGHT SIDE.
AND THEN, UH, BASICALLY TO THE SAME PARKING LOT.
I THINK THAT IF YOU DID JAMES REED'S LANE AND BEAR PLAZA AT THE SAME TIME,
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YOU'RE REALLY GONNA COVER THAT CENTER SECTION REALLY EFFECTIVELY.UM, THE OTHER THING IS WHEN YOU PUCK AT THOSE TOGETHER, THE THIRD BULLET POINT OVER HERE, UM, FOR, IF WE JUST DID JAMES LANE, YOU KNOW, IT'S A CREW COST OF, YOU KNOW, $2,500 A DAY.
IF YOU DID A BUNCH OF THESE TOGETHER, IT'S NOT LIKE, YOU KNOW, IT'S NOT THE SUM OF THE DAYS.
LIKE FOR INSTANCE, WE COULD PROBABLY DO PHASE THREE AND FOUR IN ONE DAY.
UH, ALRIGHT, UH, PHASE FIVE FRONT STREET.
SO EFFECTIVELY WHAT THIS IS GONNA DO, $12,000, UH, WOULD COVER THAT FRONT STREET AREA.
AS WE WALK THIS TODAY, WE KIND OF FEEL LIKE WE MAY NEED ANOTHER SPEAKER SET IN THE CENTER, UH, EFFECTIVELY RIGHT OUT THE FRONT DOOR HERE.
IT'S, UH, WE'VE GOT YOU SOME MAP, UM, WHEN WE GO BACK.
BUT, UM, WE FEEL LIKE THAT MIGHT REQUIRE ANOTHER, UH, ANOTHER SPEAKER LOCATION.
A LOT OF IT DEPENDS ON WHAT YOU GUYS ARE TRYING TO DO.
UM, YOU KNOW, IT, IT WOULD ONLY JUST BE A MATTER IF WE CAN ADJUST THE VOLUME ARTIFICIALLY, UH, ON THE CORNERS AND RAISE THE VOLUME SO THAT THEY CAN PROJECT A LITTLE BIT FURTHER.
BUT DEPENDS ON WHAT'S THERE AND WHERE YOUR PRIMARY FOCUS AREA IS.
IS IT, UH, IS IT ON FRONT STREET OR IS IT, IS IT ELSEWHERE? SO PHASE SIX IS CRAVEN STREET.
ALONG THE, UH, ALONG THE BACKSIDE THERE, UM, AS WE LOOKED AT CRAVEN STREET TODAY, UH, THIS IS WHERE THEY WERE ACTUALLY DOING THE TREE WORK.
UM, I, I FEEL LIKE WE'RE PROBABLY GONNA HAVE TO HAVE MORE RADIOS THAN WE ORIGINALLY ANTICIPATED.
UM, BUT AGAIN, IT'S, IT'S RELATIVELY LOW, UH, LOW COST, UM, UH, AND A LOT OF IT IS HARD FOR ME TO JUDGE 'CAUSE I HAVEN'T SEEN WHAT THIS NEW PARKING FACILITY IS GONNA LOOK LIKE.
YOU HAVE A LOT OF, YOU KNOW, WE, WE MAY NOT HAVE AS MANY OBSTRUCTIONS IN THE WAY AS I SEE TODAY IF YOU'RE TAKING TREES OUT AND WHATNOT.
SO, UM, A LOT OF IT WILL DEPEND ON THE FOLIAGE, UH, AND THE TREES THAT ARE IN THE WAY OF THAT.
BUT THE STREET LIGHTS REMOVE A LOT OF THAT CONCERN IF WE'RE ABLE TO PLACE, LIKE THE PARKING SIGN.
WHAT WHAT IT MEANS IS ABOVE THE, UH, THE, THE ACTUAL STREET LIGHTS, IF WE CAN BROADCAST STRAIGHT DOWN THE CENTER OF THE STREET TO THE NEXT INTERSECTION.
IF I CAN SEE THE LIGHTS, THEN THESE RADIOS CAN SEE THE SIGNALS.
I DON'T KNOW WHAT THE LAWS ARE THOUGH.
WE DIDN'T DO THAT AT MONROE, BUT THEY DON'T HAVE THE OVERHANGS AT MONROE.
WELL, MONROE MAIN STREET IS INTERSECTED BY TWO CROSS STREETS THAT ARE STATE STREETS, THEREFORE THEY'RE DOT POLES.
AND YOU, I'M SURE YOU RUN INTO THAT BECAUSE THEY, WE NEED ELECTRICITY.
WELL, THE STATE'S NOT GOING TO PAY ELECTRICITY FOR YOUR SOUND SYSTEM.
YOU KNOW, THEY'RE PAYING ELECTRICITY FOR THE STOPLIGHTS.
SO THE STATE STREET, BUT I DON'T, I'M NOT SURE.
YEAH, EVERYTHING DOWNTOWN THEY ARE.
SO I DON'T THINK IT'S WHATEVER THE CITY DECIDES, WHICH MAKES SENSE WHY YOU WERE ABLE TO INSTALL THAT PARKING SIGN.
BECAUSE YOU WOULDN'T HAVE BEEN ABLE TO DO THAT ON A DOT POLE.
SO THAT REDUCES THE NUMBER OF RADIOS, THEREFORE REDUCE COST THEMSELVES, IT CHANGES.
LIKE I SAID, IF YOU GUYS WANTED TO MOVE FORWARD, WE, WE'D COME BACK AND DO A MORE DETAILED ANALYSIS.
YOU'RE STILL GONNA NEED TO GET FROM THOSE STREETLIGHTS TO WHEREVER THE SPEAKER LOCATIONS ARE.
SO WE MIGHT STILL HAVE SOME RADIOS, BUT IF WE CAN MINIMIZE, I MEAN, YOU, YOU'RE HERE FOR SOUND, YOU'RE NOT HERE TO BUY RADIOS.
SO I'D LIKE TO MINIMIZE THE NUMBER OF RADIOS THAT WE USE, UM, ON THE NETWORK.
IT JUST WOULD REDUCE THE AMOUNT OF POTENTIAL FAILURE POINTS.
AND WITH THAT, I WANT TO SHOW YOU A LITTLE BIT ABOUT THE EQUIPMENT.
SPEAKING OF ELECTRIC COSTS, I'M SURE IT'S NOMINAL FOR THESE THINGS BECAUSE IT'S SO SMALL, BUT, UM, CAN YOU GIVE US AN IDEA OF WHAT A, LIKE, INCLUDING THE CENTRAL MODULE? WE, I, I CAN'T GIMME TWO MINUTES.
YEAH, I, WE PULLED THAT TOGETHER FOSTER.
I JUST CAN'T REMEMBER THE NUMBER OFF THE TOP OF MY HEAD.
UM, UH, BUT YEAH, WE'LL, WE'LL GET THAT FOR YOU.
UH, EFFECTIVELY THE WAY THAT THE SYSTEM WORKS, UM, THIS IS THE END STREAMER.
SO THIS IS, UH, EFFECTIVELY, UH, RECEIVING A SIGNAL RIGHT NOW FROM MY LAPTOP.
SO I'VE JUST GOT IT PLUGGED IN, UM, UH, TO, TO SEND AN AUDIO SIGNAL TO IT.
UM, AND THEN FROM THERE, IT'S PLUGGED IN VIA AN ETHERNET TO THIS RELATIVELY SIMPLE, INEXPENSIVE NETWORK SWITCH.
UM, AND THEN FROM THERE, UH, EFFECTIVELY THIS IS A CLOSED NETWORK, SO IT'S NOT CONNECTED TO ANY WIFI OR ANYTHING ELSE RIGHT NOW.
UH, I DON'T HAVE ANY WIRELESS CONNECTED HERE TODAY.
UH, JUST REALLY JUST A DEMONSTRATION, UH, FOR, FOR PURPOSES OF WHAT WE'RE TRYING TO DO HERE, THIS IS THE POWER CHITON.
SO EFFECTIVELY I'M SENDING THAT SIGNAL FROM, UH, FROM THE IN STREAMER TO INSIDE THIS POWER CHITON IS INSTALLED AN X STREAMER.
IT'S BASICALLY, IT LOOKS VERY SIMILAR TO THIS BOX AND IT'S INSTALLED IN HERE.
UH, BUT BECAUSE THIS IS THE IP, WHAT'S THE WORD? IPEI KEEP FORGETTING IT.
THE WHAT? THE, UH, IP RED? YES.
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THANK YOU.UH, THE IP 65 RATED, UH, BOX, THEY PUT THE DEVICE INSIDE TO PROTECT IT FROM THE, WHICH MEANS IT WILL WITHSTAND ALL DUST, 100% DUST AND DIRT PARTICLE INTRUSION.
UH, AND IT'S DESIGNED AND TESTED FOR HIGH PRESSURE WATER JETS, ONE FEET AWAY BLASTING IN THAT NO WATER INTRUSION, SO THAT IT IS VERY, VERY SECURE FROM THE ELEMENTS.
FROM THERE, UH, WE HAVE A, THIS IS A, A RELATIVELY STRAIGHTFORWARD, UH, SPEAKER CONNECTION THAT JUST BASICALLY SCREWS INTO THE BACK OF THE SPEAKERS THEMSELVES.
WE BROUGHT THESE IN FOR DEMONSTRATION PURPOSES ONLY, JUST SO THAT YOU KIND OF SEE WHAT THEY LOOK LIKE.
UM, THEY'RE PRETTY DISCREET, UM, MOUNTS UP HIGH IN THE SKY AGAINST CLOUDS, AND THEY'RE VERY KIND OF, THEY KIND OF DISAPPEAR INTO THE, INTO THE, UH, INTO THE SKY.
UM, SKIP, DID YOU WANT TO MOVE THE SPEAKERS AS I PLAY? YEAH, I, I'LL GET THAT FOR YOU.
SO EFFECTIVELY WHAT I'M DOING IS JUST PLAYING MUSIC.
UM, WHAT I DO, I DON'T KNOW,
YOUR CONNECTION, I THINK YOUR CONNECT.
IT SOUNDS LIKE IDEALLY WE WOULD NOT BE DOING THIS FROM THE LAST IT'S WIRELESS.
LEMME SHOW YOU THIS BEFORE WE LOSE THAT CABLE.
THAT CABLE NOT TO, I THINK IT'S THAT CABLE.
YOU'RE MUCH LOWER THAN THE, AGAIN, THERE'S DIRECT, WE GOT A CABLE PROBLEM.
MIKE AND I DON'T, I DON'T HAVE MY TRUCK.
WE CAME IN YOUR AI POWERED BOARD.
UM, WHAT WE'VE GOT IS, UM, SO I APOLOGIZE FOR THE TECHNICAL DIFFICULTIES THAT WE'RE HAVING RIGHT NOW WITH THIS CABLE.
I, UH, DID NOT CHECK THE CABLE BEFORE I CAME HERE.
BUT, UM, EFFECTIVELY WHAT WE'VE GOT IS YOU'VE GOT THE ABILITY TO CONTROL THE VOLUME, UM, DIRECTLY.
I'M GONNA JUST PULL UP THE ACTUAL APPARATUS HERE.
AND YOU SEE, UM, THIS IS EFFECTIVELY OUR TWO DIFFERENT DEVICES.
SO THIS IS THE IN STREAMER DEVICE, THE ONE ON THE RIGHT HAND SIDE.
UM, IF I GO TO THE HOME OF THE IN STREAMER DEVICE, YOU'RE GONNA SEE THE ACTUAL BROADCAST.
UM, AS WE INCREASE THE VOLUME, YOU WOULD SHOW THE INDIVIDUAL, UH, LINE LEVELS.
AND THEN OF COURSE THE, UH, THE STREAMING CLIENT, THE RECEIVING SIDE OF THAT IS ALSO, UM, UH, GONNA BE SEEING, SHOWING PLAYING, AND IT'S, UH, PLAYING AT A PARTICULAR DECIBEL.
SO RIGHT NOW IT'S UP AT THE, UH, A VOLUME, UH, THAT'S BEING DISTRIBUTED.
UM, A COUPLE THINGS TO NOTE, UM, THE NETWORK MATTERS.
AS SOME OF YOU SAW WHEN I CAME IN HERE, WE WERE, UM, MESSING AROUND WITH THE IP ADDRESSES, UM, TO MAKE SURE THAT IT FUNCTIONED IN THIS BUILDING.
UM, AND SO THAT CONFIGURATION ONCE SET, I MEAN, YOU'RE PRETTY MUCH, LIKE I SAID, IT'S CLOSED NETWORK.
SO YOU'RE NOT MAKING A BUNCH OF CHANGES.
YOU'RE NOT HAVING A BUNCH OF DEVICES THAT ARE ARGUING WITH THE OTHER DEVICES ON THAT NETWORK.
UM, IT DOES REQUIRE, YOU KNOW, THESE, THESE DEVICES, THESE RADIOS WILL NEED TO UPGRADE FROM TIME TO TIME.
SO THE IDEA THAT, OR THESE, THE DESIGN THAT WE HAVE AND, AND THEN WE DID IT IN MONROE, WAS TO ACTUALLY HAND OVER THAT NETWORK TO MONROE'S IT DEPARTMENT.
AND THEN THEY, THEY, UH, THEY WILL PATCH THOSE RADIOS AS NECESSARY.
SO, OTHER QUESTIONS? QUESTIONS.
SO IF YOU WERE A TREE, SHOW ME WHAT, WHAT HAPPENS IF YOU'RE A TREE IN BETWEEN WHATEVER THERE, I CAN'T ACTUALLY DEMONSTRATE THAT BECAUSE I DON'T HAVE ANY WIRELESS SET UP.
BUT IF YOU WERE A TREE AND IT WAS IN THE WAY, UM, IF YOU, IF YOUR TREE LEAVES WERE TO BLOW OR SOMETHING AND THEN OBSTRUCT THE VIEW, YOU WOULD ACTUALLY, IT WOULD BE VERY SIMILAR TO THE WAY THAT, THAT, UH, THAT CABLE JUST CLIPS, UH,
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UM, AM I WRONG, SKIP? NO, YOU'RE RIGHT.BUT TO PUT IT IN, IN A TERM THAT MAY BE EASIER TO UNDERSTAND, LET'S SAY YOU HAVE A SPOTLIGHT IN YOUR HAND AND THE LIGHT IS THE SOUND.
IF YOU SHINE THAT SPOTLIGHT OF THE TREE, LIGHT WILL GO THROUGH IT, BUT IT'S VERY ATTENUATED.
YOU DON'T GET THE BRIGHT LIGHT ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE TREE.
UH, BUT YOU STILL GET SOME SIGNAL IN THE WORLD OF SOUND THAT'S GOING TO CAUSE THE SIGNAL TO BE LIKE THIS A LITTLE BIT, YOU KNOW, BE CHOPPY.
SO IT'LL, LIKE THE CLARITY WILL BE SORT OF SCRATCHY.
LIKE WHAT WE'RE, WHAT WE'RE HEARING HERE, WHAT WE'RE HEARING WITH THAT CABLE, WITH THE SCRATCHINESS.
AND IF YOU SHINE THAT SAME SPOTLIGHT AT A BUILDING ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THAT BUILDING, YOU DON'T GET ANYTHING.
SO THAT'S BASICALLY THE WIRELESS IS ATTENUATED.
SO HOW LONG WOULD IT TAKE TO FIX A SCRATCHY, UH, MUSIC NOTE? THE DESIGN WOULD FIX IT.
YOU LOOK IT UP, BUT NOW IT'S SCRATCHY.
SO ARE WE WAITING A WEEK TO FIX THE SCRATCHY? I MEAN, YEAH, BUT WE WOULD NOT DESIGN IT.
YEAH, WE WOULD DESIGN IT SO THAT THERE WAS NO TREES.
WE WOULDN'T PUT THE RADIOS IN THE, IN A LOCATION THAT WOULD HAVE THAT POSSIBILITY.
BUT WE'RE GOING TO, WE WOULD NOT HEAR THE NO OBSTRUCTION.
YOU SEEM SKEPTICAL TO BE HONEST.
CAN ADJUSTMENTS BE MADE REMOTELY FROM A SOMEONE THAT OWN POSSIBLY WITH A LAPTOP, NOT ADVISABLE TO DO THAT? YOU'D HAVE TO OPEN UP THE NETWORK.
YOU OPEN UP THE NETWORK AND NOW YOU'VE GOT THE POSSIBILITY OF EVIL PEOPLE GETTING INTO THE NETWORK.
UM, YES, THEORETICALLY YOU COULD CONTROL IT, UH, REMOTELY.
I BELIEVE THE CITY OF MONROE IS BROADCASTING A PANDORA STREAM.
UM, AND THEY ARE CONTROLLING THAT PANDORA STREAM REMOTELY, ALTHOUGH THE DEVICE ITSELF IS ON A CLOSED NETWORK.
UM, SO THERE'S A COUPLE DIFFERENT WAYS THAT YOU COULD CONTROL THAT.
IT REALLY DEPENDS ON WHAT YOU'RE TRYING TO DO.
IF YOU'RE TRYING TO CONFIGURE SPEAKERS THOUGH, AND VOLUMES FOR INDIVIDUAL SPEAKERS, IT WOULDN'T BE ADVISABLE TO DO THAT.
SO WE HAVE MANY BUSINESSES WHO ALREADY HAVE, UH, BUILT-IN SPEAKER SYSTEMS IN FRONT OF THEIR BUSINESSES.
SO HOW DOES THAT AFFECT WHAT YOU'RE DOING? SO I THINK WE WOULD WANT TO PROBABLY INVENTORY THOSE AT THE TIME OF THE DESIGN TO MAKE SURE THAT WHATEVER WE'RE DOING DOESN'T IMPEDE OR OVERSHADOW, UH, EXISTING, UH, BUSINESS SOUND THAT'S, THAT'S THERE.
I MEAN, UM, I'M NOT SURE EXACTLY WHERE YOUR UH, WHERE YOUR STOREFRONT IS.
I REMEMBER YOU TOLD US ABOUT IT, BUT A LOT OF IT COULD BE, UH, COULD BE CONTROLLED BY WHERE WE PLACE SPEAKERS AT OUR BUSINESS AT THINK'S KITCHEN.
WE HAVE SPEAKERS TIME AND WE WOULD DO AWAY WITH 'EM IF THIS WOULD HAPPEN.
NOW I DON'T HAVE TO PAY THAT MONEY TO HAVE THE MUSIC OUTSIDE BECAUSE I'M GONNA HAVE MUSIC OUTSIDE.
SO IT'S THE, THIS WOULD BE A SAVINGS TO ME.
YOU KNOW, PEPSI STORE'S A LITTLE BIT DIFFERENT 'CAUSE YOU KNOW, I GOT THE PEPSI COLA, YOU KNOW, COMMERCIAL JINGLES, AD NAUM, YOU KNOW, GOING ON.
AND I THINK THAT'S TO THE BENEFIT OF THE PEPSI STORE.
BUT CERTAINLY, YOU KNOW, WE COULD, YOU KNOW, WORK THAT IN.
BUT THE SCHEDULE ON, THAT'S NOT A COST TO ME, THAT PANDORA IS A COST.
WELL THAT'S NEW, BUT WE HAVE MANY, MANY OTHER BUSINESSES WHO DO HAVE SPEAKERS.
NO, I'M SAYING, AND I DO, I HAVE A BUSINESS WITH SPEAKERS, BUT I WOULD, THAT WOULD BE A SAVINGS TO ME AND NOT HAVING TO HAVE EM.
AS HE'S SAYING WITH THE INVENTORY, PROBABLY SURVEY AND ASK THEM IF THEY WOULD BE RIGHT.
YEAH, I MEAN WE CAN PUT THE MAP TOGETHER.
LOOK, THIS IS WHERE WE'RE PROPOSING PLACING THE SPEAKERS.
IT, YOU KNOW, DO YOU HAVE ANY CONCERNS OR WHATNOT? THE REASON PEOPLE DO IT IS BECAUSE IT'S DEAD.
OH, THERE'S NOTHING LIKE ADDING SOUND TO YEAH.
TRACK PEOPLE IF WE HAD SOME, YEAH.
SO THIS WOULD CREATE AN ENERGY, GIVE US SOME INFORMATION.
I'M MORE CONCERNED ABOUT THE EMERGENCY CAPABILITIES OF IT.
I ALSO WOULD BE A PROPONENT AND I TALKED TO THE ALDERMAN, I THINK THEY WOULD BE AS WELL TO THROUGHOUT THE DAY ANNOUNCEMENTS.
PLEASE REMEMBER, TWO HOUR PARKING, YOU KNOW WHAT OR TODAY WHAT STREET CLOSING.
THE STREET CLOSING AT THREE O'CLOCK, PLEASE.
I MEAN, TO ME, I THINK THAT WOULD BE HELPFUL TO OUR VISITORS WHO MAY NOT RECOGNIZE THE SIGNS OR MAY HAVE GOTTEN BUSY AND FORGOTTEN.
SO TO ME, SPORADICALLY MAKING THAT ANNOUNCEMENT I THINK WOULD BE REALLY HELPFUL TO OUR, I AGREE WITH THAT.
IT'S VERY HARD TO GET THE CARS OFF THE STREETS.
IT IS, YOU KNOW, AND THE SIGNS ARE PLACED IN DIFFERENT PLACES.
MUSIC, WE WILL HAVE ANNOUNCEMENTS AS WELL.
THINK WE, I THINKS IT DISPERSED NOT ON A, YOU KNOW, TOTAL UH, THIS OR TOTAL THAT.
BUT I MEAN JUST SOMETHING THAT MAY HELP WITH, YOU KNOW, OLD STREET CLOSURES.
UH, YOU KNOW THAT EVERYBODY, I GOT THE PHONE CALLS.
WHY, WHAT ARE THEY DOING ON MIDDLE STREET? WHY ARE ALL THE CONES OUT? YOU KNOW, EVEN THOUGH WE GOT NOTICES OR ANNOUNCEMENTS DURING PARADES TOO.
OR LIKE, YOU KNOW, MARDI GRAS OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT.
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AN ANNOUNCER WITH A REALLY GOOD VOICE.I MEAN, WHAT IS IT? WHO IS, WHO IS THE ANNOUNCER? I THINK THAT'S TOO FAR DOWN THE ROAD TO TALK ABOUT.
THINK YOU'RE LOOKING AT IT IN THE BACK.
I LIKE THE OTHER THING YOU MIGHT, AI IS RIGHT.
THE OTHER THING YOU MIGHT THINK ABOUT IS, UM, YOU KNOW, NOT NECESSARILY MONETIZING IT, BUT COULD, YOU MENTIONED A PEPSI, UH, THE JINGLE, THERE'S NO REASON THE SCHEDULE ON TOOL THAT WE ARE PROPOSING, YOU CAN WEAVE IN COMMERCIALS INTO IT.
NO, BUT I WOULDN'T, THAT WOULDN'T BE FAIR FOR ME TO DO THAT FOR SOMEBODY THAT'S ON CR STREET.
YOU KNOW, WE KEEP IT KIND OF CENTRALIZED TO THE STORE.
BUT IT, I CAN FORESEE, YOU KNOW, PERHAPS MIKE LEE'S STORE AND YOUR STORE WANTS TO PUT AN ADVERTISEMENT OUT OF, HEY, COME SEE THE NEW DISPLAY AD OR SOMETHING ALONG THOSE LINES.
I DON'T KNOW, IT'S JUST, IT'S ANOTHER USE FOR IT.
I THINKS BACK TO YOUR SPECIFIC POINT ABOUT THE PARKING AND THINGS LIKE THAT.
THE SCHEDULE ON THAT MIKE TALKED ABOUT HAS THE ABILITY TO HAVE PRERECORDED MESSAGES.
IF YOU WANT TO PLAY IT EVERY DAY AT 10 O'CLOCK EVERY DAY AT NOON, YOU CAN SET IT AND THERE'S LIKE HUNDREDS OF DIFFERENT ANNOUNCEMENTS IN.
YEAH, I WAS GONNA SAY, WOULDN'T IT BE WONDERFUL, YOU'RE A VISITOR HERE AND YOU HEAR, WELCOME TO NEW BY NORTH CAROLINA BUILT IN, YOU KNOW, FOUNDED IN 1710.
SHE'S ENJOY, I MEAN, JUST SOMETHING THAT, NOT THAT IT'S MUSIC ALL THE TIME AND THEN MAYBE THE NEXT HOUR YOU HEAR, DID YOU KNOW THAT CITY HALL WAS BUILT IN, YOU KNOW, WHATEVER YEAR AND THAT IT WAS ORIGINALLY THE US POST OFFICE.
I JUST THINK IT COULD BE SO UNIQUE AND BRING SUCH A DIFFERENT, AN EXPERIENCE THAT WE DON'T ALREADY HAVE.
I JUST THINK, YOU KNOW, YOU KNOW, LET PEOPLE KNOW, YOU KNOW, LIKE A HISTORY MINUTE, YOU KNOW, MAY EVERY TIME ON THE 30 MINUTES YOU HAVE A HISTORY MINUTE OR A HISTORY 30 SECONDS, SOMETHING LIKE THAT I THINK WOULD BE AMAZING.
I ALSO NOTED YOUR, UM, LOOKS LIKE YOU HAD A BRIDGE RUN RECENTLY.
I MEAN, I DIDN'T FORESEE YOU, I DON'T KNOW.
I'M ASSUMING THAT IT, IT IS IN THIS VICINITY AS WELL.
YOU COULD UTILIZE IT OR THAT AS WELL.
SO THERE'S A LOT OF GREAT POTENTIAL USES FOR IT.
I WANTED TO TOUCH A LITTLE BIT ON THE WARRANTY INFORMATION AS WELL.
YOU COME UP A COUPLE OF DIFFERENT TIMES.
SO STONEHAVEN ISS WORKMANSHIP.
SO OUR, OUR INSTALLATIONS AND WHAT UH, WARRANTY FOR A YEAR TECH NOMAD HAS A TWO FIVE AND 10 YEAR WARRANTY.
UM, SKIP IF ENOUGH TO HELP ME OUT WITH THE 2 5 10 SPLIT.
I BELIEVE TWO IS FOR THE INDIVIDUAL, THE COMPONENTS THAT COULD BE OVER DRIVEN BY OPERATOR ERROR.
SO BASICALLY THE SPEAKER ITSELF, WHICH IS A CONE AS YOU'RE FAMILIAR WITH THE TWEETER, IS A SMALL DIAPHRAGM.
THOSE TWO COMPONENTS ARE WHAT ARE TWO YEARS.
AND IF THEY'RE OVER DRIVEN THEY'LL TAKE CARE OF IT FOR TWO YEARS.
EVEN THOUGH YOU'RE SOMEBODY AT CITY HALL TURN THE VOLUME UP TOO MUCH, YOU KNOW, SO THAT, BUT THAT'S WHAT IT WOULD TAKE.
IT WOULD TAKE SOMEBODY PHYSICALLY IN THE CABINET.
AT CITY HALL WITH THE KEY CRACKING.
THE FIVE YEAR WARRANTY IS ON ALL THE PARTS THAT ATTACH TO THIS SPEAKER, MEANING THE GRILL, MEANING THE LITTLE BARRIER STRIP IN THE BACK.
WHAT CAN GO WRONG THERE? I DON'T KNOW.
THEY ARE REALLY CONFIDENT IN THEIR PRODUCT.
THEY'RE REALLY CON AND IT IS A GREAT PRODUCT.
THE RADIOS HAVE A TWO YEAR WARRANTY.
AND THEN THE AUDIO TECHNICA, UH, MICROPHONE, THE WIRELESS MICROPHONE THAT WE THREW, UH, THAT WE ADDED, ADDED INTO THE BOX OF, SORRY, THE SERVER RACK ALSO HAS A TWO YEAR WARRANTY.
I THINK WE ALREADY TALKED SOME THROUGH SOME QUESTIONS.
I WANTED TO OFFER SOME PICTURES.
SO, UM, THIS BOX RIGHT HERE IN THE UPPER LEFT WOULD BE, UM, AN IDEA OF WHAT WE WOULD BE IN INSPECTING.
SO IT MOUNTS ON THE WALL, UM, IT ACTUALLY OPENS UP.
UM, SO THIS KEY WILL ALLOW YOU TO ACCESS IT FROM THE FRONT AND THE WHOLE APPARATUS ACTUALLY SWINGS ON A HINGE BACK THE OTHER DIRECTION.
SO YOU CAN GET AT THE SPEAKER COMING IN THE OR AT THE EQUIPMENT FROM THE BACK.
IT'S, I, I LIKE THIS PICTURE NOT 'CAUSE SKIP IS IN IT TAKING THE PICTURE, BUT BECAUSE UH, IT, IT'S REALLY SHARP LOOKING ACTUALLY.
SO I DON'T KNOW WHERE IN CITY HALL YOU WANT TO INSTALL IT, BUT YOU KNOW, IT'S NOT UGLY.
IT'S, YOU KNOW, IT'S GOT FLASHY LIGHTS, YOU KNOW, EVERYBODY LIKES IT.
UM, IN THE LOWER SECTION YOU'LL SEE UH, AN INSTALLATION OF THE TWO, THE INDIVIDUAL SPEAKERS AND THEN THE CHITON MOUNTAIN.
UH, SIMILAR TYPE OF LOCATION AROUND UM, THE HOLIDAYS.
UM, AND THEN THIS IS A, AN IMAGE OF THE BOX.
UH, THE, THE SPEAKER RACK OPENED UP EFFECTIVELY, THIS IS VERY SIMILAR
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TO WHAT YOU GUYS WOULD HAVE IN YOUR INSTALLATION WITH ONE EXCEPTION.THIS PARTICULAR AMPLIFIER WOULDN'T BE HERE.
AND THEN IN ITS PLACE WOULD BE THE SCHEDULE ON, UH, YOU DON'T NEED THIS AMPLIFIER 'CAUSE YOUR AMPLIFIERS ARE DISTRIBUTED.
AND THEN I WANTED TO GIVE YOU A SENSE OF WHAT THAT RADIO LOOKS LIKE.
'CAUSE I WASN'T SURE IF I WAS GONNA BE ABLE TO GET IT IN HAND TODAY.
MORE QUESTIONS? ANY QUESTIONS, COMMENTS? ANYBODY IN THE BACK THERE? HAPPY TO HAVE ANYBODY ASK ANY QUESTIONS, COMMENTS? SO, UH, JUST IN SUMMARY, I WANTED TO KIND OF PULL US TOGETHER THAT FINAL, UM, THE, OUR OUR THE, THE PROPOSAL SHOULD, WE WANTED TO DO ALL OF THE PHASES.
NOT THAT I REALLY WANTED TO ADD UP ALL OF THE INDIVIDUAL NUMBERS 'CAUSE I WAS AFRAID THAT IT WAS GONNA BE A, UH, UH, A CONCERN.
BUT, UH, I REALLY WANT TO GIVE YOU GUYS A SENSE FOR WHAT THIS PROJECT WOULD COST IF WE COVERED EVERYTHING.
AND SO, YOU KNOW, YOU'RE LOOKING AT SOMEWHERE BETWEEN, YOU KNOW, 80, $85,000, UM, TO COVER THE, ALL THE, THE ENTIRETY OF THE PROJECT.
UM, DID FOSTER TALKED TO YOU ABOUT UNION POINT PARK THAT IF WE COVER THAT OR THAT BEING ANOTHER PHASE UNION POINT PARK? THAT'S THE PART I ASKED ABOUT COMING IN.
I SAID I'M SURPRISED THEY DIDN'T SAY ANYTHING ABOUT THAT.
YEAH, I'M SURPRISED THEY DIDN'T BECAUSE THAT WHEN WE ORIGINALLY WERE LOOKING AT A SYSTEM WHICH WAS WIRED THAT WE, WE TALKED ABOUT UNION POINT PARK BECAUSE AGAIN, IF WE'VE GOT FLOODING, WE HAVE OTHER THINGS.
THAT'S A GREAT PLACE AND WE HAVE SO MANY EVENTS THERE.
IT COULD BE, THERE'S AN EMERGENCY SOMETHING I THINK THAT WOULD BE A GOOD PLACE TO AT LEAST BE ABLE TO PUBLICLY ADDRESS.
HE DID NOT MENTION THAT, BUT IF IT'S WHERE I THINK IT IS, IS THAT RIGHT? HE RIGHT THERE WHEN YOU COME OVER THE BRIDGE, RIGHT? COME OVER THE BRIDGE.
I MEAN WE COULD EASILY TRANSMIT THAT SIGNAL.
AND NOW I JUST WONDER IF ONE OF THE, ONE OF YOUR RADIOS OR WHATEVER THAT GO DOWN SOUTH FRONT STREET TOWARDS THE CONVENTION CENTER IF ONE WAS PLACED THERE.
IF IT WOULD, I DON'T KNOW IF THAT CERTAINLY GOT A LOT OF TREES AND STUFF THERE.
SO WE COULD CERTAINLY, IT MAY HAVE TO HAVE, I IT LOOKED LIKE A BIG ENOUGH PARK THAT IT WOULD WANT ITS OWN, UM, APPARATUS ITSELF.
SO FROM CRAIG STREET WOULDN'T COVER THAT PART.
YEAH, NO IT WOULD NOT FROM CRAIG, BUT MAYBE SOUTH FRONT, BUT OR FRONT, I'M SORRY.
OTHER QUESTIONS? ANYBODY ELSE COMMENTS? ANYBODY? ALRIGHT, WELL I HOPE THIS WAS HELPFUL FOR YOU GUYS TO THANK YOU.
UH, GET A SENSE FOR WHAT'S POSSIBLE.
UM, AND UM, UH, WE, WE WOULD BE, UH, HONORED TO, UH, TO PARTICIPATE IN THE PROJECT.
I KNOW THAT AGAIN, FOSTER WILL GET UP WITH YOU.
I KNOW HE WANTS TO GO TO MONROE TO LOOK AT THIS AND I'M SURE WE'LL COME BACK AND TALK ABOUT IT IN OUR AUGUST MEETING.
OF COURSE IT'LL BE THE, YOU KNOW, THE DECISION.
WE'LL TALK ABOUT IT AND GO ON TO THE ALDERMAN.
I KNOW ALDER, I'VE SPOKEN TO ALDERMAN FERGUSON IF HE WOULD LIKE TO SEE MORE AND HEAR MORE ABOUT IT, SO.
UM, WELL LET'S, THEY'LL GET THIS PRESENTATION.
I'M SURE YOU'RE GONNA BE IN TOUCH WITH FOSTER AS YOU HAVE TO.
SO I'LL TALK WITH, UH, WITH FOSTER, UM, AND YEAH, EN ENJOY MONROE.
I MEAN I THINK, UH, ASHLEY'S BEEN GREAT.
SHE'S BEEN A GREAT PARTNER FO WITH US.
UM, SO, UM, I'M, I'M EXCITED TO HEAR, UH, HEAR HOW YOUR TRIP GOES.
YEAH, KAREN, UM, JUST 'CAUSE YOU CAME FROM GOLDSBORO AND THEY HAVE ONE IN GOLDSBORO.
ANY, IS THERE ANY UPS OR DOWNS OR ANYTHING ABOUT THIS AS THAT WAS INSTALLED AFTER I LEFT.
OH, IT WAS SO, AND I HAVE REACHED OUT TO ERIN AND I'VE NEVER HEARD BACK FROM HER ON THAT I KNOW.
WAS THERE OR DO YOU KNOW? I'M NOT SURE HEARING THE MUSIC AND EVERYTHING, THERE'S LITTLE WASHINGTON AS WELL.
YEAH, IT'S RATHER UNOBTRUSIVE.
I MEAN, NICE TOUCH ONE, ONE QUESTION.
UM, IS IT POSSIBLE TO HAVE LIKE TWO DIFFERENT SETS OF SIGNALS GOING OUT? AND THE REASON I SAY LIKE TALKING ABOUT UNION POINT, I MEAN I PERSONALLY, I, I LIKE THE IDEA OF THE PUBLIC SAFETY.
HATE THE IDEA OF MUSIC, THE UNION POINT.
I MEAN, IF YOU'RE ON THE WATER AND YOU'RE RELAXING YEAH.
I DON'T WANNA HEAR, YOU KNOW, BLACK ROSE OR ANYBODY ELSE REALLY.
I, I WANNA HEAR THE WATER AND, AND THE DUCKS AND WHATEVER ELSE OUT THERE.
SO I MEAN, LIKE YOU SAID, POSSIBLE TO HAVE LIKE SOME THAT ARE PARTITIONED FOR ANNOUNCEMENTS AND SOME THAT ARE PARTITIONED FOR ANNOUNCEMENTS AND AUDIO.
I, I KNOW THE ANSWER TO THAT QUESTION.
WITH THIS SYSTEM THAT COVERS THE DOWNTOWN AREA, YOU WOULD USE NOTHING EXCEPT FOR SOME OF THE COMMAND MODULE.
YOU WOULD HAVE TO HAVE A SEPARATE IN STREAMER AND THEN SEPARATE OF THIS TO SEND ANOTHER SIGNAL AND YOU WOULD USE A DIFFERENT MIXER.
YOU WOULD USE WHAT'S CALLED A ZONE MIXER.
THE PARK WOULD BE ZONE TWO OUTPUT HAS A DIFFERENT INPUT COMPLETED.
YEAH, I THINK THAT'S SOMETHING.
SO IF THAT'S THE WAY YOU WANT TO GO, THEN YES.
THAT WE HAVEN'T CONSIDERED THAT IN THIS PRESENT, BUT IT WOULD BE, IT WOULD BE ALREADY THE INSTREAM ITSELF, WHICH I PRICE ON AND
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EFFECTIVELY THAT ZONE MIXER IS DIFFERENT COST.UM, WOULD BE, BUT YOU KNOW, GONNA BE 10,000 AND IT COULD BE THAT YOU PROGRAM IT, IT'S NOT ON A DAILY BASIS.
IT WOULD BE THERE JUST LIKE YOU SAID DURING CHRISTMAS OR SOMETHING.
I'M JUST TRYING TO THINK AHEAD.
'CAUSE I MEAN ESPECIALLY IF IT'S MODULAR, IT SEEMS LIKE IF YOU DID IT, WE'D PROBABLY ONLY START IN A TRIAL AREA RATHER THAN SPEND TO PULL 'EM OUT.
DRIVE MIDDLE STREET, SEE IF IT WORKS, HOW PEOPLE LIKE IT.
IF NOT, PULL THE PLUG AND YOU KNOW.
WE APPRECIATE YOU BOTH BEING HERE AND COMING ALL THIS WAY.
IF YOU GUYS WANNA COME LOOK AT WHAT'S IN THE MAGIC BOX, THAT'S WHAT IT'S
AND ONE THING THAT WE DID NOT, THESE REQUIRE POWER ALSO, BUT YOU DON'T HAVE TO PLUG 'EM INTO AN OUTLET.
THIS PROVIDES POWER FOR YOUR RADIUS.
SO YOU DON'T HAVE TO HAVE MULTIPLE POWER SOURCES UP ON A POLE.
AND YOU WANT, ONCE YOU GET THIS POWERED, IT POWERS EVERYTHING ELSE.
DID I MENTION THAT? UH, I DON'T KNOW IF I MENTIONED THAT.
BUT THEN THESE DO REQUIRE POWER.
SO ANY POLE THAT WE INSTALL THIS, IF THERE'S NOT ALREADY POWER AT THAT POLE, WE NEED TO GET A RECEPTACLE INSTALLED AT THAT POLE.
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I'M GONNA MOVE ON TO ITEM NUMBER FIVE.DO WE HAVE ANY COMMENTS FROM THE PUBLIC? I DO HAVE A COMMENT.
UM, SO GRETCHEN TWO 17 A P*****K STREET.
UH, I THINK THE, THE CROSSWALK AT, UH, P*****K AND HANCOCK LOOKS FANTASTIC.
VERY EXCITED TO SEE THAT IN KUDOS TO PUBLIC WORKS.
I'M REALLY LOOKING FORWARD TO SEEING HOW THE NEXT CROSSWALKS COME OUT.
YEAH, EVERYTHING'S LOOKING GOOD AND TRASH CANS AND EVERYTHING ELSE THAT ARE DOWN THERE, IT'S STARTING TO COME TOGETHER, SO THEY APPRECIATE, BUT THE CITY IS DOING.
UM, OUR NEXT MEETING IS I BELIEVE AUGUST 19TH.
IS THAT CORRECT? I, IT WASN'T ON THE AGENDA, BUT I BELIEVE, UM, ONE HOUR.
AUGUST THE 18TH AT 12 NOON IS OUR NEXT REGULARLY SCHEDULED MEETING.
WELL HOPEFULLY HAVE EVERYBODY HERE.
WE CAN HAVE A FULL MEETING WITH MINUTES AND FINANCIALS AND EVERYTHING ELSE.
UH, CAN I, I'D LIKE TO ENTERTAIN A MOTION TO ADJOURN THEN.
JOHNNY, ALL THOSE IN FAVOR? YOU NOT, YOU DON'T HAVE A FLOOR? OH, I.