I'm trying to rush you.

I apologize.

That's only thank you committees now comes to order.

Can I have a another motion?

Yes, ma'am.

You got one.

Can I have a second?

All in favor.

Uh-huh.

Thank you.

And now our new business.

We have Fire Marshal Patrick Signs and she dealt with the authorization to enter into a no-cost agreement.

Today we're here to talk about the authorization to enter into a no-cost agreement for the city of Tuscaloosa with Brycer LT, this management software that will help us out with tracking compliance, uh, some of the required inspections that are that are needed for businesses, um, and even those notifications that the fire marshal's office is having to do right now.

So this is really uh a software that kind of gets us up to where the market standard is right now.

There's there's a lot of cities across the state that have already that are already using this type of software, um, and we're we're getting on with them.

So there's a lot of this would be uh this software would be for the actual companies that do the service work, so fire pump sprinkler systems, hood systems, hood cleanings, those are the things that that these companies would enter the software.

Uh enter these reports in, and so that's where fire marshal steins and his inspectors and investigators get that information and can follow up on that.

Um really just creates more efficiency in his his department.

Whoops, yes, sir.

I've got fire marshal signs here.

That's what will that help you keeping up with your annual inspections, what you're supposed to inspect?

Yes, absolutely.

Because I would think that would be a head of yeah, absolutely.

So basically, what we're talking about is a record keeping solution, and we've got roughly uh 4,000 fire protection systems within our jurisdiction that require some form of either a quarterly, semi-annual, or annual inspection.

And what we've seen over the years is that uh we're we're being the trigger mechanism that gets these people spun up to to do what they're supposed to be doing on a regular basis.

So what that does in turn it generates more re-inspection for us.

Like on average, we're averaging about 3,800 annual inspections on our existing buildings, and each year we're averaging around 800 re-inspections.

So I really feel that this product can really uh enhance our operational efficiency to allow us to track these things because everything's going to be visible real time with this particular uh well-based uh software that we're going to be using.

So we can actually see when these companies go out and they submit the deficiency reports to our office directly, so we know real time what's going on out there in all of these buildings, so we can interact with them either through Brycer.

Everything's automated.

Bryce will handle all of this internally.

They will send out the notification.

They're like a creditor, they're gonna call you, they're gonna send you mailers, they're gonna send you an email, they're gonna stay on top of this and making sure that these people are getting these uh these important systems, you know, inspected at the right animals.

So free.

So it is contractor, so it is uh it is a hundred percent on the contractors, it's funded through the contractors.

Um when they go out and do their inspections, they will have to push all of their submittals through the compliance engine for uh for a fee.

They will incur a fee for that each time they they submit uh report to the compliance engine.

How much is my cost was that how much is my fee they're gonna do?

No, no, it's not necessarily well, I'm gonna charge the right honor.

It will it will roll off.

It is 17 per submittal.

27 20 20 seconds.

I'm sorry, it's $27 per submittal, and uh and like like we know those those inspections are are expensive in and of themselves, so you know you're talking about a thousand fifteen hundred dollars, you know, twenty seven hundred for for them to and this is going to also uh boost their service revenue because we're gonna be on top of these things, these items to be able to get them done and completed in a timely manner.

So you say 27 or 27, right?

27 dollars 27, okay.

So that's like a hundred thousand dollars a year.

They're 4,000 inspections.

They got a good racket.

So uh the only the only experience I have is inspections.

When I had the juvenile detention center, I had to have an annual inspection.

Now I would just call y'all the sage's time and y'all would come do it.

But uh because I had to have it for my state license.

So will you so if I had done that now, y'all would charge me what?

No, we wouldn't charge you anything.

Okay, you know, if you had a sprinkler system or a fire alarm system, you know, once you call it, you know, this is saying you called uh a local company, you'll call global.

I'm just gonna use an example.

You call them to come do your inspection because Brycer is going to notify you as the building owner, hey, uh Mr.

Farrell, your building uh is due for your annual fire protection system, yeah.

Right, right, exactly.

But the problem that we're seeing is that we're coming out and we're seeing these systems that are deficient.

Oh they're not doing them any time.

You only pass their inspection if the contractors come out.

That's correct.

And that's what we're seeing a lot of is that we'll come out and six months behind, and then now we're coming back again.

It just never crossed my mind not to have them come inspect.

You know, so is it gonna be a requirement for everybody to use it?

Yes, and I hate to say it, I'm selfishly.

I'm sitting here thinking through all the sprinkler inspections I get, and I don't know if y'all deal with them, they've never come out and not had to fix something, you know.

They gotta find something out there.

Well, and when they do the annual, that doesn't count for the five years.

So now you gotta get you gotta get six inspections every five years.

That's correct.

Because the annual this year that they did in March doesn't count for the five year they gotta do in April.

And then so I guess I'm just afraid we're putting $27 on every one of those, and the contractors will have the option of contacting the fire department, getting some information and creating an owner for them and submitting it directly to the fire department.

We don't anticipate that they're gonna be willing to do that.

No they charge everybody all over the country the same.

And these companies are using this software mobile, Montcovery, Hunsible, this is not anything new to the to the market.

Uh all these companies that that are here, they're we talk to the stakeholders on this the the service provider like three thousand odd sprinkler system owners, not specific the sprinkler system owners, or it's the property owners that have all these.

I mean, this is a new fee that's gonna end up coming down.

I know we're not charging it, but the contractors are already used to paying this because it's already in Alabama.

So basically what we're trying to say is that Brycer has 23 23 other partners throughout the state already, and we know that these fire protection companies work from from state line to state line, and they're already incurring these these fees and everything like that for mobile.

Uh Birmingham is partnered with live, which is a competitor to Pricer, uh uh Huntsville.

So they're they're already in the circuit here, so I don't this is not going to be something that novel to the process.

So this goes to the fire protection services, the people that are actually providing the services, not the actual property.

Oh, but they're gonna put it on the bill typically how economically it will roll off.

We do have a new sure price or $27 service charge on the it's probably not gonna be itemized, then probably just gonna give you a charge bidding that includes it.

And then I think too with this, too.

I I know we're talking about numbers and and who this is going to and stuff, but we've also looked at some deficient systems and those so those residents that are staying there, they're seeing re-inspections from systems, things like that that are not up to date.

And I think you know, uh, I think there could be an argument over this cost, but if then they it keeps the residents safer having that in organized manner.

I mean I get we gotta have inspection.

I'm not arguing that.

I know they gotta be safe, they can I because we've had systems that have been neglected, and that's a huge problem.

But all I was just another fee getting passed down to the property owner.

Is this gonna make sure I guess I'm advocating for it?

Will would it make it easier to know that you're getting all these inspections done?

Because I'll be honest, I had to call two or three times sometime to get my inspection.

Yes, because they're gonna be on you with every form of communication.

And compliance will also go up because of their efforts to scale people like the collection.

Is there an option where we pay for the service and they don't charge a fee?

Who pays for the service?

Instead of us getting it for free, can we be a subscriber?

I mean, I just I mean the software sounds neat, it just doesn't sound like a software that costs a hundred thousand dollars a year, and on y'all's numbers, that's what they're gonna generate from having us as a client.

I'm just like, can we pay them 20 grand a year and we get the service and they don't charge the vendors?

That's not this company's model.

I'm not saying that there's not one out there.

Um right now there's only two, and this is really the the idea behind this was more efficiency in the firewall costs.

Um I did it, it just yes.

And I think I agree with you, those are you're a bunch of money on software, you know.

And so I think there's if you look at the number of residents and if you look at the number of sprayer systems, the number of growth that we're having in the city, it's just gonna get bigger and thicker.

And that's what that's what we're trying to make sure we get it, the compliance there before it hits.

Oh, I I believe you need the software just are you speaking more from the owner's pride.

Oh, yeah, passing another fee down.

Yeah, yeah.

I I don't I'm not gonna mean whether you need the software that won't provide value to you.

But you know, a little bit of an argument was was uh initially when these when these uh when this product first came into the market started circulating, uh a lot of the contractors were a little bit on on the side of had a little bit of unrest because of you know having to pay that extra fee and stuff like that.

But what they ended up realizing is that their service revenues was this direction.

Because but but that's because we're on top of things a lot more as we should be.

Uh but you know, when you don't have the human resources to actually enter every building every year, this is just something I think that a technology-based uh system that you know can really make us a little bit more efficient in what we're doing because we do want to drive for 100% compliance in these systems, yeah, for sure.

I'm not looking at it the the top part of whether the system's good or needed or whatever, it's just that that revenue model is a little hard to stomach.

So this mission will be much easier for the contractor to be convenient.

Any other questions?

Sounds like we are implementing the best practices to help everybody stay in compliance.

Is there any more questions or comments?

I'll make a motion.

Okay, I second all in favor.

Aye.

Motion passes, so thank you so much.

Is there anything else to come before public safety?

We have a recession at 430 four.

We have a recession at four hope to see y'all there.

All right, if nothing else and I get a motion to adjourn.