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Motorola, the company that provides the equipment has stopped making the radios and won’t service them starting in 2019. So it seemed everyone needed to budget replacements next year. Young said that may not be the case.
“The sheriff has worked out a financing plan where the payments would then be started in 2019 and would run for two or three or five years, whatever makes sense,” Young said. “The county can either pursue that financing scheme or find some other way to pay for it.”
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The local police and fire jurisdictions are on the hook for their own radios.
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