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Town board approves Zinner water-meter contract, members note recurring subscription costs
Summary
The board approved a contract with Zinner for radio-read water meters; members discussed itemized recurring costs including per-radio fees, hosting and SIM-card communications and accepted the subscription as an ongoing operating expense.
Kanarraville — The Kanarraville Town Board approved a contract with Zinner for radio-read water meters during its Jan. 22 meeting after staff explained the vendor’s hosted system and recurring fees.
Speaker 1 introduced the item noting Zinner had helped install the radio-read meters and that a subscription fee had been flagged after installation. Speaker 5 explained that Zinner’s system is a hosted database with a web interface used for meter reads and billing; the company charges an annual hosting fee (reported at $500) plus per-radio communication fees (approximately $1.20–$1.50 per radio depending on configuration), collector and SIM-card communication fees, and occasional replacement radios when failures occur.
Board members discussed the recurring line items and reliability trade-offs: automated reads reduce manual labor but create ongoing operating costs that should be placed in the water-department budget. Speaker 2 moved to approve the Zinner contract for the water-meter transmitters; Speaker 8 seconded and the board approved by voice vote.
What’s next: Staff will incorporate the subscription and operating fees into the enterprise-fund budget and track annual hosting and per-radio costs in future budget planning.
