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Emergency management recommends switching radio maintenance contract; town can choose when to join state system
Summary
Emergency Management Director Russ Kimmes recommended replacing the town's Motorola maintenance agreement with a $78,660 Northeastern Communications sustainment contract and discussed voluntary migration to the state public-safety radio system in the early 2030s.
Russ Kimmes, New Canaan's emergency management director, recommended that the town move its public-safety radio sustainment work from a Motorola support contract to a direct service agreement with Northeastern Communications at an annual cost of $78,660.
Kimmes told the council that Motorola initially proposed a roughly 31% increase at contract renewal (he said that later discussions reduced that to about 21%), a rise he described as unacceptable…
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