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Fulton County commissioners approve temporary generator rental after outages disrupted dispatch systems
Summary
After recent outages and a compounded switch/firmware failure left dispatch and county servers vulnerable, commissioners authorized a short-term generator rental while vendor repairs continue; staff cited multi-week repair timelines and parts costs.
Fulton County Commissioners voted to authorize staff to secure a short-term rental generator after recent power interruptions and related equipment failures disrupted dispatch, the server room and county operations. The motion, approved 3–0, authorizes procurement contingent on council funding and allocating costs from identified county sources.
Maintenance staff described the problem as both a generator failure and separate networking/switch firmware issues that prolonged outages.…
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