Chapter 171

Jenny and I did out secret task again Saturday and Sunday night. I noticed when I got dressed early that there was a several empty packs of Captains wafers crackers on the night stand on Jenny's side of the bed.

Mark, Robert Bradberry and I flew out of the airport at 8 AM on Tuesday to Salem Regional airport. We had a 10 AM meeting with Mr. Tawes to design and give them a bid on a security system. After our meeting with Tri County we were flying to FSU to approve the temporary offices and check out the equipment installation.

I had a laptop with a camera so we could have a video conference with Marcy, Sandy and Cindy. Tri County was also one of the airports that had a MAAR site.

I had a folder full of color photographs from Google earth that Cindy had numbered so I could put them out in order to make a complete picture of the campus. The pilots had changed King Air seating into business seating. There was a small table between the facing seats.

Robert and I put the pictures out on the table in groups. We made designs and notations where we thought camera locations should be on the college property. One new piece of equipment Robert and I had discussed was adding a vehicle tag scanner. It would give us instant electronic record of every vehicle that came on campus and would alert us instantly of problem people going on campus. The data could be continuously cross referenced with sex offenders list, wanted criminals list and others.

One plus to having a contract with the scanner company was that we could add as many as we wanted for the security division at other locations.

Johnson Tri County was another one of those colleges that shared too much information on the net. We used that information to come up with the necessary layout for the camera system in the dorms and college buildings. According to their website all of their dorms had been refurbished over the last two years. My thought was that most likely they had electronic card locks.

By the time we were ready to land we had a pretty good package put together. All that remained were the finer points on the equipment.

Marcy and Sandy and Cindy were working up the cost for the office end of the bid. Robert had given them a list of servers that were compatible with the camera system. Marcy of course was doing her thing; price shopping for the servers and monitors and other office equipment.

Tri County had 400 more students in dorms than FSU and 300 more commuting. Because of that I added 4 more full time employees to the equations than at FSU. One more person on each shift should be enough along with the part-time people.

I taped the sheets together and folded the map when we were finished with it. A few minutes later we were standing at the MAAR counter to pickup our car. There were a couple customers ahead of me so I waited my turn.

The car was reserved by my Fast Tracks Card. I handed the counter person my card as I introduced myself. "B. J. Jones, Jones Business Groups," I said.

It was interesting to watch the expression on her face change as she looked at the card and then back to me. The rumors that the bosses arrived without announcement were proven as fact once again. My card had my title under my name.

The manager finished up with his customer and practically jumped over a chair to introduce him self to us. After a few minutes of general talk I said, "Give us one of the older cars. Rent the newer ones to paying customers. We have to get on the road to a meeting." Even though I knew the directions, I asked for them.