Fire chief presents replacement of station alerting system; panel approves request

Chief Dan Tilton, the fire chief, presented a request to replace the department’s current tone-alert system across five fire stations with a modern Honeywell system and the committee approved the purchase by voice vote.

Tilton told the committee the proposal is "a total replacement of our tone alert alerting system that we have at 5 stations." He said the new system will use a ramp-up tone rather than a single loud blast and will include station lighting that can indicate squad-versus-fire calls, which he said will help crews identify the type of response while other call information is still being processed.

The chief described vendor pricing and in-house line items. He cited a vendor quote of "$4.48" and additional items — an 18,000 bridge and about 4,000 in monitors — producing a total he described as "right around $4.79." The transcript does not specify units for those figures. The chief said the upgrade is included in the capital improvement plan for the year and suggested the system could produce measurable reductions in response time once implemented.

Committee members responded with support. The chair said, "It's a savings. I like that." A motion to approve the purchase was made, seconded and approved by voice vote; the chair recorded an aye.

The committee took no further action during the same item; the meeting moved on to subsequent agenda business.

Notes: The transcript records vendor and line-item figures but does not provide explicit dollarunits or a roll-call vote tally; the approval was recorded as a voice vote.