{"id":5118,"date":"2020-11-11T03:57:27","date_gmt":"2020-11-11T08:57:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/?p=5118"},"modified":"2020-11-11T03:57:27","modified_gmt":"2020-11-11T08:57:27","slug":"toms-river-sets-aside-5m-for-emergency-radio-frequency-switch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/2020\/11\/toms-river-sets-aside-5m-for-emergency-radio-frequency-switch\/","title":{"rendered":"Toms River Sets Aside $5M for Emergency Radio Frequency Switch"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Police radio. (Credit: Brett Neilson\/Flickr)<\/p><\/div>\n

Toms River officials on Tuesday night voted to bond $5 million to purchase equipment in order to switch the township\u2019s emergency radio frequencies under a federal mandate.<\/p>\n

About $250,000 of the project cost will be funded under a matching state grant. The need for new radio equipment is the result of a requirement by the federal government that emergency communications be moved out of cluttered 400Mhz band. It is part of a nationwide effort of updating police radios to be more efficient using \u201cnarrowband\u201d technology and rebranding frequencies.<\/p>\n

\u201cBecause of that we have to sustain some significant costs including new radio towers,\u201d said Alex Davidson, the township\u2019s Chief Financial Officer. \u201cPlus, of course, new radios.\u201d<\/p>\n

While switching frequencies will be costly, it technically will not place any new level of debt on the township. Council members voted to cancel $5 million of unused bonding simultaneous to the new bond measure.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re doing this to maintain our spending level, so we\u2019re authorizing $5 million on one side and cancelling $5 million on the other side,\u201d said Davidson.<\/p>\n

The previous spending was authorized but the bonds were never issued.<\/p>\n

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Toms River officials on Tuesday night voted to bond $5 million to purchase equipment in order to switch the township\u2019s emergency radio frequencies under a federal mandate. About $250,000 of the project cost will be funded under a matching state grant. The need for new radio equipment is the result of a requirement by the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5119,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,3,4],"tags":[1142,1141,11],"class_list":["post-5118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-government","category-police-fire-courts","tag-emergency-radio","tag-police-radio","tag-toms-river-nj-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/3119378115_a95507b9cc_k.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5118\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}