Morgan County DTRS in the news
Emergency radio system may cost county
By DAN BARKER, Times Staff Writer
Posted: 10/28/2009 11:26:54 AM MDT
Morgan County may have some higher costs for its emergency radio system in a couple of years.
Six counties have maintained the costs for the statewide Digital Trunked Radio System which pulls the overall system together, but they will stop that after 2010, said Pam Monsees, director of the Morgan County Communication Center, during an MCCC Board meeting Tuesday.
Just the local ports Morgan County uses for the system have an expensive maintenance contract, she said.
By 2011, the county will probably have to pay a price per unit for the service, Monsees said.
She told the board members she wanted to warn them ahead of time.
The board approved a recommendation to Morgan County law enforcement agencies to not use Microsoft to get into the Computer Information Systems database to create other databases.
Those kinds of databases slow the system down because they are redundant, and eventually could make the system too hard to use, Monsees said.
There is the chance that data could be corrupted and it breaches security, she said.
Also, while these individual databases are being constructed they may interfere with the system, which could make the database incomplete, Monsees said.
An agenda item about using different names to designate emergency vehicles was tabled until after a November meeting of the area fire departments.
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