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LANKSTON Jeff <br /> From: RHAY Tim W <br /> Sent: Wednesday, October 25, 2000 4:31 PM <br /> To: LANKSTON Jeff <br /> Cc: RINER Andrea G <br /> Subject: FW: "Web Cams" (Again) <br /> See Below - FYI: It looks like a viable idea. <br /> As to "readily available" phone lines, that comment was in the context of a comparison to the Spencer Butte <br /> site, where it was not available. How close a point of service is to the camera site remains a question, but <br /> phone lines can be no further away than the school /fire station, etc. <br /> PS: Captain Hansen is off until November. <br /> -Tim R <br /> Original Message <br /> From: BLANCHARD Bob C <br /> Sent: Wednesday, October 25, 2000 2:53 PM <br /> To: RHAY Tim W <br /> Cc: MCLAUGHLIN Jim T <br /> Subject: RE: "Web Cams" (Again) <br /> Tim: the key to making a webcam work is the availability of both power and phone lines. Absence of a phone line was the <br /> major roadblock to my attempts to put together a proposal for Spencer Butte Park. So the fact that phones are available to <br /> the two sites you mention will allow us to set up webcams fairly easily. <br /> In my research this summer I was getting costs for the whole setup (camera, housing, VCR with extended recording <br /> capacity, cabling, interfaces to VCR and /or PC) ranging anywhere from $2,000 to $7,000 depending on features (motion - <br /> detecting, pan and tilt, length of recording capacity, zoom and other camera features, etc.). We'd also need an older PC to <br /> act as the interface to our web server. It's very doable, and I'd love to spearhead the project. <br /> I'll get back in contact with the vendors I checked with before, get more specific numbers for each of these two sites, and <br /> let you know. <br /> -Bob <br /> Original Message <br /> From: RHAY Tim W <br /> Sent: Wednesday, October 25, 2000 2:10 PM <br /> To: BLANCHARD Bob C <br /> Cc: MCLAUGHLIN Jim T <br /> Subject: "Web Cams" (Again) <br /> Jeff Lankston informs me that he has received "pretty strong direction" from the City Manager to place web cameras at the <br /> two Skate Parks (Cal Young and Churchill). The idea would be to establish a full -time link to the City internet site that one <br /> could "click" to get a "real- time" view of the young people doing their various runs, jumps, and grinds at the facilities. In <br /> addition to positive publicity "on the web", the knowledge of the cameras presence would eliminate the "out of the way" or <br /> "out of sight" feeling when using the skate parks. <br /> Of course, we'd want to position the cameras so that anyone attempting to vandalize (including graffiti) the facility would <br /> also be "live" on "candid camera" so to speak. I assume some way to record these images for 48 - 72 hrs would be a <br /> requirement or, at least, something we'd like to have if at all possible. <br /> Installations would have to be highly vandal resistant, of course. Possibilities include perching them on top of adjacent <br /> light poles or installing a tall "mast" to house the camera. Others? <br /> So, the same questions as we asked for Spencer Butte I am now asking for these two sites. Power and telephone lines <br /> are readily available. Secure storage for a CPU and other switch gear would be available in the nearby restroom at Cal <br /> Young and the restroom or, possibly, the fire station adjacent to the HS grounds at Churchill. <br /> Can this be done? What do we need? What is the estimated cost? <br /> (We do have some funds remaining from YSP construction and the interest of the CMO implies that funding can be <br /> obtained if costs are reasonable.) <br /> Tim Rhay <br /> 1 <br />