The New Albany Police Department will use a new method of communication next year.
With the tower that currently holds the department's radio antenna coming down at the end of the year, village council this week approved a resolution to contract with the state's multi-agency radio communications system, or MARCS, to replace the current system.
Currently, the police department has a communications antenna on a tower on Reynoldsburg-New Albany Road. With the tower coming down and in anticipation of choosing a new service, police Chief Mark Chaney went over four options with council at its Sept. 16 meeting. Choices included a state system, a county system, building a new tower or moving an antenna to a tower being constructed four miles away near Walnut and Harlem roads.
During the September meeting, Chaney said he preferred MARCS rather than the other systems.
"MARCS was one of the options that provides long-term solutions," he said Tuesday.
"It gives us maximum coverage not only within Franklin County, but Licking County," village administrator Joe Stefanov told council.
