The Board of Commissioners accepted the meeting agenda that included an annual bulk purchase of radios totaling $667,000 for public safety agencies, county staff said. The item, part of a recurring county bulk-buy program, covers 12 agencies and provides equipment for the district attorney's office, the probation department and the county 911 center.

“It's a $667,000 purchase. It includes 12 agencies throughout the county plus equipment for our DA's office, the probation department, and also for the 911 center,” said Scott Keener, communications service manager for the county 911 system, describing this year’s order.

Keener said the county has run the bulk-purchase program for three years and that the combined list price for purchases over that period was about $7,000,000, while actual payments made totaled about $3.3 million. “We've saved 3.7 [million] through the bulk program over [the] 3 year period,” he said.

Keener told commissioners the equipment currently in the field was largely deployed in 2015 and is approaching end of life, which he said is scheduled for November 2026. “So end of life is coming up with a lot of that stuff here in November 2026,” Keener said, and he described the bulk purchase approach as a way for departments to replace equipment “in small bites” rather than face a large, unaffordable one-time replacement.

Mr. Dahl, a county staff member who introduced the agenda item to the board, praised Keener's work arranging the purchase as an example of fiscal responsibility and interagency cooperation.

The board approved the full agenda by voice vote when a motion to accept items 1 through 42 was made and seconded; the chair called for voices in favor and the motion carried. The record in the meeting transcript does not specify individual vote tallies or the names of the motion maker and seconder.