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Consultants recommend advisory board and inventory to shore up county radio system
Summary
Avistas presented a P25 radio‑network assessment concluding Hood County lacks sufficient operational visibility under current interlocal agreements; consultants recommended forming an advisory board, inventorying assets, and a buy‑vs‑build analysis for long‑term control of mission‑critical communications.
Avistas (presented by Bill Morgan) reported an assessment of Hood County’s P25 radio network and concluded the county currently lacks the operational visibility needed to manage mission‑critical communications for 23 agencies that rely on that system. Morgan said the county’s interlocal arrangement with the City of Granbury and vendor contracting (L3Harris) leaves the county "blinded" in important monitoring functions and urged the creation of an advisory board of stakeholders to define operations requirements and performance metrics.
Morgan outlined a "crawl, walk, run" maturity path: digitally account for all physical/logical assets, stand up governance, update policies, and then evaluate whether to overlay county‑owned core assets or renegotiate access under the current interlocal. Commissioners discussed staff bandwidth and coordination with other ongoing county projects; Morgan recommended subject matter experts be engaged to do the heavy lifting while county staff oversee and review deliverables.
No vote was taken; commissioners agreed the recommendations merited follow‑up and discussed rapid formation of a governance/advisory group to address access and service‑level concerns.
