The completion of a countywide fiber-optic cable network for police, fire and emergency services is one step closer.
However, there is still a way to go. It will take roughly a half-million dollars to fully complete the network.
The Putnam Township Fire Department station will be connected next, likely sometime next spring.
Fiber-optic cable lines would be strung on DTE Energy poles from the site of the former Pinckney Elementary School to a spot near the road by the township's fire station on M-36 at a cost of around $90,000.
The county Board of Commissioners finance committee, which consists of the full board, approved a resolution Wednesday to match up to $45,000 in county Homeland Security grant funds with general fund dollars.