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Bourbon County earmarks ARPA dollars for radio towers to improve first-responder coverage

Bourbon County Commission (budget work session) · July 8, 2024
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Summary

Commission staff said American Rescue Plan Act funds are set aside to install towers and repeaters in the county’s northwest to improve EMS and sheriff radio coverage; presenters acknowledged full county coverage is unlikely without additional towers.

During the budget work session speakers explained that ARPA funds have been designated for radio tower and repeater work in the northwest of Bourbon County to address longstanding gaps in first-responder radio coverage. "We have no radio service out there," one speaker said, describing repeaters shared by EMS and the sheriff and plans to…

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