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Okanogan County outlines $3M USDA-backed plan to modernize emergency radio network
Summary
Mike Wharton of the county 911/dispatch told commissioners the county has been allocated $3 million routed through USDA to expand and modernize its public-safety radio network, with an estimated project cost of about $3.73 million and local match coming from sales-tax revenue and prior radio purchases.
Mike Wharton, who runs Okanogan County’s 911 dispatch, presented the county’s USDA Rural Development grant application and answered commissioners’ questions about a proposed upgrade to the county’s public-safety radio network.
Wharton said the county in late 2023 was awarded $3,000,000 in congressionally directed spending that would be managed through USDA Rural Development and applied to a project to merge the county’s public-safety radio network with Washington State Department of Transportation (DOT) infrastructure. “The end result is that we’ll have a…
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