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EMA seeks county help to expand tower work after inspection and to add VHF/700 MHz capacity
Summary
Emergency Management requested commissioners use 9‑1‑1 funds to fix a tower light and asked the county to consider covering an additional $20,290 to install VHF and 700 MHz antenna/repeater capacity for redundancy after state site outages disrupted communications.
Decatur County Emergency Management presented quotes to repair a tower light and asked commissioners for assistance to expand the work while crews are on the tower, citing recent state-site outages that left parts of the county isolated for radio communications.
EMA said a previously approved climb-and-repair job (quote 1) for a tower-light repair came in at $16,765 and was expected to be covered by 9‑1‑1 funds up to $20,000; staff noted the 9‑1‑1 funds had been…
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