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Wells public-safety budget: fire department seeks phased radio upgrade and continued health-and-wellness spending
Summary
Fire chiefs urged a phased $260k–$354k radio upgrade to restore interoperability with neighboring agencies and proposed continuing a health-and-wellness program (cancer screenings, mental-health support) previously grant-funded; board requested a detailed cost breakout before voting.
Fire department leaders told the Selectboard on Feb. 11 they plan to phase a multi-year replacement of radios and related truck equipment to ensure interoperability with neighboring agencies and modernize aging equipment.
Chiefs said tri-band portable radios — which allow communication across UHF, VHF and trunked 800 systems — cost roughly $9,989 each, and that a full first-phase package (portables, a repeater and mobile units for trucks) would bring the initial year’s appropriation request to between $177,000 and $261,483 depending on scope. "Individual cost for these…
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