(Spirit Lake)– The Dickinson County Board of Supervisors voted 5-0 nothing this (Tues.) morning to join the Iowa Statewide Interoperable Communications System. Moving to the new public safety radio system is going to cost the county some 5.5 million dollars. The supervisors voted to fund that cost by dipping into carryover funds; by using a little more than 1.2 million in the county’s allocation of American Rescue Plan Act funds; and by raising the county’s general fund levy to the maximum level. Supervisor Tim Fairchild said he feels that’s the most equitable way to do it, instead of dividing up the costs between the various entities…
Fairchild added it will also do away with hundreds of thousands of dollars in interest costs that would have been associated with issuing bonds for the project.
