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REQUEST FOR <br />COUNCIL ACTION <br />CITY COUNCIL MEETING DATE: <br />NOVEMBER 7, 2011 <br />TITLE: <br />AGREEMENT WITH SOFTMASTER, INC. <br />FOR SUSPICIOUS ACTIVITY REPORTING <br />SYSTEM (UASI FUNDED) <br />CITY MAN GER <br />RECOMMENDED ACTION <br />CLERK OF COUNCIL USE ONLY: <br />APPROVED <br />? As Recommended <br />? As Amended <br />? Ordinance on 1st Reading <br />? Ordinance on 2"d Reading <br />? Implementing Resolution <br />? Set Public Hearing For <br />CONTINUED TO <br />FILE NUMBER <br />Authorize the City Manager and the Clerk of Council to execute the attached agreement with <br />SoftMaster, Inc. for report writing and analytic software that will enable analysis of Suspicious <br />Activity Reporting (SAR), in an amount not to exceed $150,600. <br />DISCUSSION <br />The United States Department of Homeland Security Office of Grants and Training has <br />developed the Urban Areas Security Initiative (UASI) funding program. This initiative was <br />designed to enhance the domestic preparedness of urban areas by ensuring that all emergency <br />first responders have adequate and appropriate equipment to prevent, protect, respond to and <br />recover from acts of terrorism. Santa Ana has been designated as an Urban Area Core City for <br />the ninth year. The City of Santa Ana has fiscal responsibility for the FY09 UASI Grant for the <br />Anaheim/Santa Ana Urban Area which encompasses 34 jurisdictions in Orange County. <br />The Santa Ana Police Department currently utilizes SoftMaster's Incident Reporting System (IR2) <br />for report writing. The new contract with SoftMaster, Inc. will approve the purchase and <br />installation of a Suspicious Activity Report system, which has analytic enhancements that will <br />automatically process and analyze suspicious activity reports. The system will enable the City of <br />Santa Ana to electronically share information with the Orange County Intelligence Assessment <br />Center (OCIAC), by automatically; uploading suspicious activity reports into OCIAC's database, <br />correlating them to similar reports, and notifying OCIAC analysts of newly uploaded reports. In <br />addition, SoftMaster will provide a perpetual license for the Incident Reporting Analytics package, <br />which will facilitate reporting and data analysis. The purchase of the SAR analytic enhancement <br />will also enable us to meet the guidelines as set forth in the Department of Homeland Security's <br />Nationwide Suspicious Activity Reporting Initiative (NSI). <br />25B-1