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The Columbiana County Sheriff will also provide police dispatching for the Perry Township after trustees approved a resolution Monday. The police dispatching agreement with the city of Salem expires on Aug. 1 per the agreement reached under the old fire district contract. The contract with the sheriff will provide dispatching for the police and fire departments combined for about $18,000 a year. Read the full article here: http://www.salemnews.net/page/content.detail/id/503981.html Trustees approved a fire department dispatching contract with the Columbiana County Sheriff’s department on Wednesday. With a 2-0 vote and Trustee Larry Parker absent, trustees agreed to a five year, zero-percent increase deal that will cost $250 per month. The township’s fire dispatching had been contracted with Med-Corp., a Toldeo-based firm that discontinued dispatching services to about a half-dozen townships and villages in southern and western Mahoning County recently. Read the full article here: http://www.salemnews.net/page/content.detail/id/503820.html NEW CUMBERLAND — Over the next two weeks, Hancock County’s police, fire, and emergency crews will be testing upgraded radio equipment that should allow for greater coverage throughout the county. Tom Zielinsky, executive director of the Hancock County Office of Technology and Communications, said the equipment the county previously had, an analog system, was over 25 years and that he had heard complaints from the sheriff’s office and fire departments that were many dead spots in the county where the radios’ signal would cut out. When they began to replace the equipment, Zielinsky said it was their goal “to have as near 100 percent coverage in the county as possible.” Zielinsky said they have gone from seven towers to 10 to create an overlapping effect that should eliminate most of the dead spot problems. That includes using water tanks at Oakland, Rolling Acres, and Mountaineer as towers. Read the full article here: http://www.salemnews.net/page/content.detail/id/503360.html LISBON – The Columbiana County Commissioners approved a $193,154 lease deal to purchase a new radio system for the Sheriff’s Office which could save costs and increase safety for deputies who rely on the radio as their lifeline in the field. “Our radio system has been in dire need of replacement for some time,” Sheriff David Smith said Wednesday, adding it was last upgraded in 1973. He said the system needed immediate attention. Dispatchers have been losing contact with deputies in the field due to dead spots and one of the towers used as a repeater site in the western part of the county where he has an antenna is being dismantled by the owner. The commissioners approved a lease/purchase agreement with Dollar Leasing of Cleveland to purchase the equipment for the Multi-Agency Radio Communication System known as MARCS. As part of the five-year deal, the county will make an annual payment of $44,771 beginning July 2009 and then purchase the equipment at the end of the contract for $1. Read the full article here: http://www.salemnews.net/page/content.detail/id/503288.html |
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