By NATASHA BRENNEMAN
Staff writer
Clarion County commissioners on Tuesday approved two new contracts with Mobilcom to improve emergency services communication.
The first contract approved at their meeting was to provide and install a new licensed microwave link between Clarion Office of Emergency Service and Trinity Point. The value of the contract is $20,144, with a $170 monthly maintenance fee.
The second approved contract was to install a similar system between Trinity Point and Knox. The cost of the second contract will cost $21,144, with a monthly maintenance fee of $170.
The previous systems weren’t licensed. Ron Wolbert, director of 911 services, said that without a license anyone would have been able to install a radio and interrupt communication with OES.
Commissioners also approved a modification to Community Development Block Grant funding to allow the use of leftover money for a 2013 East Brady Sewer project to finish a similar project started in 2015.
The earlier project was completed on Second Street; the new project is on First Street. The modification allows $126,435 to be transferred to the new project, which was previously awarded $75,492.