The Menomonee Falls General Government Committee is considering an ordinance change to allow the Police and Fire Chiefs to use a third party to administer alarm permits and collect false alarm fees. Currently, alarm permitting and billing are handled manually by the police department business office, which staff describe as very time-consuming and tedious. The ordinance amendment explicitly authorizes outsourcing administration of Chapter 34, Article III (alarm systems), and revises the fee structure in Chapter 42-34 to support the new model. No vendor has been identified or selected in the document, indicating the Village is in planning and vendor-evaluation mode for an alarm permitting and billing solution. This creates a near-term opportunity for providers of cloud-based permitting, billing, and false-alarm management platforms, as well as third-party fee processing services, to propose systems that can integrate with Village finance and public safety workflows and improve compliance rates while reducing staff burden.

Ordinance also standardizes false alarm fee schedule, increases permit fees, and allows collection o...