[Scan-DC] P.G. trunking contract--- it's official!

[Duane Mariotti]

Good Luck building 20 towers in two years - the permitting may take that
long...

  ----- Original Message -----
  From: "Alan Henney"
  To: "Scan DC"
  Subject: [Scan-DC] P.G. trunking contract--- it's official!
  Date: Fri, 6 Oct 2006 00:23:11 -0400



  -----Original Message-----
  From: PrinceGeorgesCountyMedia
  Sent: Thu 10/5/2006 1:13 PM
  To: PrinceGeorgesCountyMedia
  Subject: Press Release - COUNTY EXECUTIVE ANNOUNCES AGREEMENT TO
  BRING
  800 MHZ RADIO SYSTEM TO COUNTY

  PRESS RELEASE

  For immediate release:

  October 5, 2006

  For more information:

  John E. Erzen
  Press Information Officer
  Prince George’s County
  Office of the County Executive

  COUNTY EXECUTIVE ANNOUNCES AGREEMENT TO BRING 800 MHZ RADIO SYSTEM TO
  COUNTY

  UPPER MARLBORO, MD – Prince George’s County Executive Jack Johnson
  today announced that the county has signed an agreement with Motorola
  and will begin construction of an 800 MHZ radio system for the
  county.

  “For years, Prince George’s County has been referred to as the hole
  in
  the middle of the region because we were the only jurisdiction that
  did not have an 800 MHZ radio system, but that is no longer the
  case,”
  Johnson said. “All of our public safety agencies will now be able to
  talk to surrounding areas. The 800 MHZ radio system will further
  enhance the delivery of public safety to the citizens and residents
  of
  Prince George’s County and provide another level of protection for
  them and for our public safety personnel on the streets.”

  The announcement comes a little more than two years after the county
  began negotiating to replace the current radio system which was
  installed more than 20 years ago. Motorola is the largest supplier of
  land mobile radio systems for public safety in the United States.
  They have provided public safety radio networks for many local
  governments in this region.

  The $68 million project should take approximately three years to
  complete. Of the 21 radio towers being used for the system, three are
  existing towers from the county’s current system that can be
  converted
  to the 800 MHZ, one has already been built and another one is about
  to
  be constructed.

  A tower has been built in Brandywine and a tower that will be located
  in Oxon Hill at Oxon Hill Road and the Beltway is set for
  construction. The remaining 16 towers will be built during the next
  two years.

  Johnson was joined at the press conference by Public Safety Director
  Vernon Herron, Sheriff Michael Jackson, Police Chief Melvin High,
  Fire
  Chief Lawrence Sedgwick, Park Police Chief Larry Brownlee and
  Motorola
  executives Patty Holtschneider and Bruce Fryer.

  “We chose the 800 MHZ radio system because we understand that it is a
  tool that the men and women in our public safety agencies need to do
  their jobs effectively and safely,” Johnson said. “We have built
  first class public safety agencies with first class people, first
  class facilities and first class equipment. Now, we will have a first
  class radio system to go with that.”

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Duane Mariotti, BSEE
Riverside, CA
mmariotti at mail.com