Title
Consider a resolution authorizing the City Manager to issue a Purchase Order to Motorola for upgraded APX radios for the Fire Department.
Body
The requested purchase is for the replacement of the Fire Departments existing XTL/XTS Motorola radios, and upgrade to the Apex line. Motorola will discontinue the XTL/XTS line of Public safety radios in 2018. The last production run was in 2013, and after 2018 it will no longer provide support, or parts for those radios. This replacement is occurring throughout Public safety agencies at various rates. RRPD is going into its third year of their replacement schedule. We will still get support from Wilco Radio shop, and also have enough replacement parts to suffice till our completion of the radios replacements. This the first year of the approved FY17 new program (3) Yr. replacement program: $368,000.00 per year.
Cost: $359,890.57
Source of Funds: General Self-Financed Construction