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Committee approves transfer request to buy portable radios amid rising costs
Summary
The committee heard a request to transfer $727,300 from fire fund savings to purchase additional portable radios to ensure firefighter communication; members moved and seconded the request and approved it by voice vote.
A committee member explained the fire department's ongoing growth and rising radio costs and asked to transfer $727,300 from budgetary savings in the fire fund (communication cost recovery fund) to purchase additional portable radios. "So to help with this initiative, we're requesting to transfer $727,300 in budgetary savings... for additional portable radios," the member said.
The motion was moved and seconded and carried by voice vote. The transfer will allow the department to equip personnel with current radios to maintain safe and efficient communications across growing operations; staff did not provide a detailed procurement timeline at the meeting.
