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County to replace aging P25 radio repeaters ahead of 2030 end-of-life
Summary
A county staff member told commissioners the Douglas County P25 radio system is aged and will reach end of life by 2030; repeaters will become unserviceable by the vendor, prompting a planned infrastructure replacement for countywide 9-1-1 communications.
Commissioners asked whether the radio replacement relates to the new public safety building. Tony, a county staff member involved with radio infrastructure, told the board the radio replacement is a general upgrade unrelated to the new public safety building project. "That system is aged out... and then by 2030, it'll be end of life," Tony said, adding that repeaters in each tower will not be serviceable by Motorola after that point and the county must plan a replacement.
Staff characterized the work as countywide: the radio replacement will refresh repeaters across all five tower sites that support 9-1-1 operations and public-safety radio traffic. Commissioners were assured the replacement is part of multi-year planning and not directly dependent on the public safety building schedule, though it will require capital funding in the CIP to execute.
