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File #: TMP -1158    Version: 1
Type: Ordinance Status: Adopted
File created: 1/14/2025 In control: City Council
On agenda: 1/22/2025 Final action: 1/22/2025
Title: Department of Public Safety: An Ordinance Amending Ordinance No.14, Adopted July 10, 2024, Entitled "An Ordinance Authorizing the Mayor to Enter into an Agreement with Securewatch24 for the Purchase of 21 Tablet-Style Mobile Computers for the Department of Public Safety",
Sponsors: PSC
Attachments: 1. Securewatch amendment.pdf
Board of Estimate and Contract

RESOLVED, that an ordinance adopted by the City Council on January 22, 2025, and signed by the Mayor on January 23, 2025, amending Ordinance No. 14, adopted July 10, 2024,
entitled "AN ORDINANCE AUTHORIZING THE MAYOR TO ENTER INTO AN AGREEMENT WITH SECUREWATCH24 FOR THE PURCHASE OF 21 TABLET-STYLE MOBILE COMPUTERS FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY"; be, and the same is hereby approved.


City Council
AN ORDINANCE AMENDING ORDINANCE
NO. 14, ADOPTED JULY 10, 2024, ENTITLED
"AN ORDINANCE AUTHORIZING THE MAYOR
TO ENTER INTO AN AGREEMENT WITH
SECUREWATCH24 FOR THE PURCHASE OF
21 TABLET-STYLE MOBILE COMPUTERS
FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY"

The City of Mount Vernon, in City Council convened, does hereby ordain and enact:
Section 1. The sixth decretal paragraph, Section 2:6 and Section 4 of Ordinance No. 14, adopted July 10, 2024, entitled "AN ORDINANCE AUTHORIZING THE MAYOR TO ENTER INTO AN AGREEMENT WITH SECUREWATCH24 FOR THE PURCHASE OF 21 TABLET-STYLE MOBILE COMPUTERS FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY"

Whereas, by letter dated June 19, 2024, the Commissioner of the Department of Public Safety has requested legislation authorizing the Mayor to enter into an agreement with SecureWatch24 for the purchase of 21 tablet-style mobile computers for the Department of Public Safety to enhance operational efficiency and provide officers with critical technology in their vehicles; and

Whereas, the Department of Public Safety has equipped its fleet of marked Police vehicles, purchased in 2022, with mounts needed to place mobile computers within the cars; and
Whereas, the Department of Public Safety needs to purchase 21 tablet-style mobile computers to be placed within these mounts to enable officers to complete more paperwork while within their vehicles, thereby enhancing operational efficiency and reducing the need to return to Police Headquarters; and
Whereas, the m...

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