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Commissioners discuss 911 radio channels, paging and NextGen board; Motorola upgrades and channel licensing highlighted
Summary
County communications staff updated commissioners on transferring old radio channels to the engineer’s office, options for licensing, a planned Motorola phone/CAD replacement, channel-transfer costs and NextGen 9‑1‑1 governance and advisory board structure.
Communications staff told the Williams County Board of Commissioners on Feb. 20 that old radio channels licensed to county communications could be transferred to the engineer’s office so the engineers can use radios they now control, and offered several options for that transfer.
Staff said the physical work of moving a repeater and transferring licenses carries costs (a physical repeater move and license transfer were discussed) while the FCC license itself is modest — a license fee was quoted as about $50 per year. The engineer’s office offered to pay for…
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