The Fremont City Council has proposed allocating $1.5 million to upgrade the city’s emergency radio systems, which would double the total amount of access to city emergency response teams as well as federal government departments like Homeland Security. This is due to be accomplished by June 2019 at the earliest and no later than June 2020, according to David Persselin, the city’s financial director.
The current system was installed in 2009 and, due to technological advances through the years, the Federal Communications Commission mandated that all emergency systems in the country be upgraded by Dec. 31, 2017. However, the FCC decided to extend the deadline in November 2017 until further notice, citing budgetary and infrastructure restraints among the reasons behind the extension.