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Commission approves emergency-management contracts for alerting, mapping and weather services

October 06, 2025 | Limestone County, Alabama


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Commission approves emergency-management contracts for alerting, mapping and weather services
At a Sept. 15 work session, the Limestone County Commission approved multiple contracts and memoranda of understanding related to emergency management, including a mass-notification MOU, field-operations and CAD licensing, a standby generator installation, a one-year weather-software subscription and a one-year pilot for public-information mapping.

The action covers an MOU with the Athens-Limestone Emergency Communications District for the Rave Alert mass-notification system; an MOU with the Athens-Limestone Emergency Communications District for field operations and a CAD (computer-aided dispatch) license; a contract with Sudden Services Inc. for standby-generator installation and maintenance at a county facility; a one-year subscription with SDS Weather for radar software for Emergency Management; and a one-year pilot agreement with Perimeter Inc. to test a public-information mapping platform.

Commissioners framed the set of approvals as routine renewals and operational upkeep. “A lot of this stuff on here is just mutual stuff we do every year,” said Chairman (unnamed). The chairman and staff indicated these are recurring agreements intended to keep the county’s emergency-notification, dispatch and weather-monitoring capabilities current.

The commission did not discuss contract dollar amounts for the generator, the Perimeter pilot or the MOUs during the work session. No formal roll-call vote was recorded in the work-session transcript; the items were presented for approval and advanced with no objection recorded.

County staff flagged the items as time-sensitive or annual renewals. The transcript shows staff repeatedly noted that the Rave Alert and other agreements are renewed annually to maintain continuity of the emergency systems. The Perimeter agreement was described as a one-year trial pilot to evaluate a public mapping platform; the SDS Weather item was described specifically as a radar software subscription for EMA.

Next steps: the items were placed on the commission’s agenda for approval at the subsequent meeting (the work session presentation indicated the county would proceed unless a commissioner objected). The transcript does not record contract start dates, total contract values, or performance metrics for the pilot mapping platform.

Commissioners or staff who raised or requested further detail were directed to follow up with Emergency Management staff outside the work session; no additional public comment on these items appears in the transcript.

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