ADOPTED & REFERRED

The adopted resolution authorized City Council’s Public Safety and Technology and Information Systems committees to hold joint public hearings about the July 22, 2008 failure of Philadelphia’s 800 MHz digital radio system. The hearings were to examine the cause of the failure, the City’s legal options involving Motorola, plans and costs for fixing the system, and could use subpoenas to require witnesses to attend and documents to be provided.

Authorizing a Joint Hearing for both City Council's Committee on Public Safety and City Council's Committee on Technology and Information Systems to hold public hearings to: investigate and determine the cause of the failure of the City of Philadelphia's 62 million dollar 800 Megahertz Digital Radio System (MDRS) which occurred at 9:30 PM on Tuesday July, 22, 2008; to receive communication and instruction from the City Solicitor of the City of Philadelphia on the status of the City's legal remedies against Motorola Corporation as a result of this latest failure; to hear the Managing Director's conclusions as to the cause of these failures and her recommendations, and timeline, to correct these failures, and to identify whether or not additional funds need to be budgeted to finally solve this serious breech of public safety, and in furtherance of such investigation authorizing the issuance of subpoenas to compel the attendance of witnesses and the production of documents to the full ext...