Franklin Lakes October 27, 2010 THE VILLADOM TIMES I • Page 7 Borough awards contract for E-Ticket system by Frank J. McMahon Members of the Franklin Lakes Police Department will soon use “E-Ticketing” to process and issue traffic summonses. The borough council recently awarded a five-year lease agreement to the East Rutherford firm of GTBM, Inc. to install the hardware and software in the borough’s police vehicles at a cost of 79 cents per ticket for the first 4,481 tickets, and 49 cents for each ticket thereafter. Payments will be made quarterly. The contract award will be contingent upon the formal appropriation of funds in each year’s municipal budget, and a donation of $5,000 from a Franklin Lakes resident, who is associated with the vendor, will cover the entire initial equipment cost. According to Acting Police Chief Joseph Seltenrich, E-Ticketing is a relatively new technology that allows a device to print a copy of a citation for the motorist once the police officer has completed inputting the data. The device will also electronically forward the summons information to the court, eliminating the need for the court administrator and the police department to handle and store paper copies. Officers will also be able to process multiple summonses more easily, since information can readily be transferred to the subsequent citations. Seltenrich said this technology allows the content of the traffic summons to be immediately and directly forwarded to the state, thereby reducing the amount of time now consumed by summons data entry within the borough’s court administrator’s office. According to Seltenrich, E-Ticket technology will likely become the standard for traffic summons processing in the future, and the borough’s receipt of the $5,000 donation from a borough resident will offset the initial equipment installation cost. The presumed disadvantages to employing E-Ticketing, according to Seltenrich, is that it will place an additional piece of equipment in an already crowded patrol vehicle, and both police officers and the court administrator may still need to maintain a supply of paper summons booklets for use in the event of periodic system failures. Another presumed disadvantage is that, at current pricing, the cost will be approximately $2,400 more per year (continued on page 25) ���������������������������������������������������� ���������������������������������������������������� ���������������������������������������������� �������������������������������������������������� ������������������������������������������ Second Hand Treasures ������������������������������������������������� �������������������������������������� �������������������������������������� ���������������������������������������������� �������������������������������������������� ������������ 7-21-10 janine\ SecondHandTreasures2x2(7-21-10) 2 x 2”