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9.1.1 IMPLEMENTATION UPDATE by Marsden Kirk The 9.1.1. Implementation Committee anticipates that the collection of the data needed to implement the 9.1.1. system will be completed during the year 2000. This data will then be handed over to the telephone companies. The committee has been told that it will then be approximately 18 months before the system is operational. It is unlikely that the 9.1.1. service will be available before 2002. The committee is a joint committee of the Councils of North and Central Frontenac mandated to establish a system of civic addresses in the Townships, provide new, accurate maps of the region and implement an emergency response program. The work required to accomplish this mandate, which commenced approximately 18 months ago, has been undertaken, in the main, by the committee members and a group of dedicated volunteers. During this time period we have come to realize that the process is much more complex than originally anticipated. Between 800 and 900 roads, comprising some 2,500 to 3,000 kms. in distance, have been identified and required measurement and mapping ; some 10,000 properties, road junctions and intersections, public water accesses and boat launches have been documented to require assignment of an address and /or sign . At the date of this report the identification process and road measurement are 98% complete in 6 of the 7 wards and electoral districts, mapping surveys have been completed in Central Frontenac and are well underway in the North and computer input of the identification data for determination of civic addresses is approximately 60% complete for the first pass. The computer entry data will require re -checking to ensure accuracy. Mapping surveys are reliant on accessing the satellites employed by the Global Positioning System (GPS) and, accordingly, are restricted to certain windows of opportunity when the satellites are high in the sky and the leaf canopy is not too heavy. Failure to meet these criteria leads to the necessity to repeat the work, some of which is currently being undertaken. Completion of these functions is anticipated in 1999. Notwithstanding this progress, there are several key matters to be dealt with before the emergency response system can be functional. They are as follows: * By-laws establishing official road names to be promulgated by the two townships; * Assign individual addresses; * Purchase and install address and road name signs; * Determine who will operate the Central Emergency Reporting Bureau ( CERB). This is a key component in the system. It is the Centre where emergency calls are received and from which appropriate services are dispatched; * Assign data to the telephone companies for their review, input and preparation. While the majority of these matters will be dealt with in the year 2000, we are advised that the telephone companies will require at least 18 months after receipt of the data to ready the system for implementation. Should anyone wish additional information, please contact a representative for your area. They are as listed below:CENTRAL FRONTENAC NORTH FRONTENAC Kennebec Ward 1 Jack Nicolson 335 2845 Dick Hook 336 0432 Marsden Kirk 335 2741 Bill Rowsome 336 8704 Olden Faye Putnam 335 2801 Ward 2 Dave Willis 279 2844 Roger & Carol Free 479 2433
Oso Gord Whan 279 2455 Ward 3 Luc Salvador 279 3110 Dave Smith 279 3305 C. St.Pierre 278 2791
Hinchinbrooke Lloyd Lee 374 2179 Dave Hansen 375 6318 Committee Secretary Gleva Lemke Home - 479 2725 Office 479 2231 Committee Chair Marcel Giroux Home 279 2961 Office 279 2116
