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Budget committee continues Motorola site‑use agreement for Bay Area public‑safety broadband to get more cost and coordination details
Summary
The Budget & Finance Committee continued a resolution authorizing San Francisco to sign site access and use agreements with Motorola for the Bay Area 700 MHz public‑safety broadband network (BayWeb) for one week to get detailed cost, device and inter‑departmental coordination information; the JPA and NTIA grant create tight federal deadlines.
San Francisco27s Budget and Finance Committee voted to continue consideration for one week of a 12‑year site access and use agreement with Motorola that would let the city join the regional Bay Area 700 megahertz public‑safety broadband network known as BayWeb.
Chair Carmen Chu said the project offers clear regional safety benefits but raised concerns about long‑term device and operating costs and how BayWeb would overlap with other planned city radio investments. "We need to know what we're getting for free," Chu said, asking departments to return with detailed cost, coordination and COIT planning information.
Anne Kronenberg, director of the Department of Emergency Management, told the committee Motorola won an NTIA BTOP stimulus grant to build a regional system and that Motorola proposed significant…
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