Ridgewood council introduces communications upgrade
THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 20, 2012, 4:44 PM
BY DARIUS AMOS
STAFF WRITER
THE RIDGEWOOD NEWS
After months of debate, Ridgewood is moving forward with a communications plan that will meet a federal mandate.
If an ordinance introduced on Wednesday is approved on Oct. 10, the village will appropriate a total of $1,067,935 to purchase and install each piece of a radio communications upgrade.
Ridgewood will then bond for the first part of the multi-tiered and multi-town project, which will cost the village nearly $700,000, and subsequently comply with the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) narrowband directive.
At this point, village officials said they are willing to pay a total of $693,750, Ridgewood’s portion of an $895,282 narrowband upgrade project. The Borough of Glen Rock, which pays to use Ridgewood’s dispatch center, will pick up the remaining balance.
The Glen Rock Borough Council, like Ridgewood, is expected to introduce a similar ordinance appropriating specific funds for the its portion of the project.
“We’ve been meeting with Glen Rock’s emergency services. Until the Village Council decides which direction to go, then Glen Rock will be paired in,” Village Manager Ken Gabbert said earlier this month.
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Well so much for zero base budgeting