Memorandum
Date: June 2, 2020
To: The Honorable Moke Simon, Chairman, Lake County Board of Supervisors
From: Brian L. Martin, Sheriff/Coroner/OES Director
Subject: (a) Approve the purchase of a mobile radio communications vault for the Goat Mountain repeater site (b) approve budget transfer and (c) authorize the Sheriff or his designee to sign the Purchase Order in an amount of $119,064
Executive Summary:
On April 16, 2020, sealed bid #20-16, titled Goat Mountain Communications Vault Project was issued to the following vendors:
Armag, Will-Burt, ADS Inc, Custom Vaults, United Radio Communications and Pepro. The bid was for a mobile vault where installation would require no ground disturbance, thus eliminating the need for an EHP (Environmental Historical Preservation) document from the Department of Homeland Security. DHS has approved this purchase and it is similar to one currently in use by the U.S, Forest Service. Both agencies have provided funding for this project.
Members of the fire agencies in Lake County and the Lake County Sheriff's Office have been working tirelessly on improving two way radio communications for several years. A few years ago we learned that placing a two way radio repeater on Goat Mountain in the Mendocino National Forest would greatly enhance our ability to communicate and thus hopefully make their jobs safer. Currently the ability to communicate via two-way radios in the vast majority of the Mendocino National Forest is almost non-existent.
Public Safety agencies heavily rely on two-way radio communications in Lake County and we have noticed that two way radio service in the Northern, North Western and North Eastern portions of Lake County are below standards in radio coverage.
The fire agencies in Lake County as well as the law enforcement agencies have seen firsthand how vital two-way radio communications is to the first responder communities in Lake County and it is a necessity for them in order fo...
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