The Town Council moved to approve a loan application with LGFCU for its Fire Department to purchase newer equipment.
The Local Government Federal Credit Union loan, which will be for $160,000 over five years, has a 2.75 percent interest rate, with payments being annually. Fire Chief Nick West said the team really needs newer radios because the current ones were being phased out.
“One thing that does help I think in hearing what Nick is going to say is that this will be covered by the county fire district,” Mayor Sylvia Campbell said.
“Approximately 14 years ago the Fire Department got a loan when they went to the VIPER radio system, and they had a 10-year loan,” said West. “At this point… our radios and pagers have reached their end of service life.
“Basically the radios are no longer supported by Motorola and the technology has changed.”