Board hopes to reduce six figure cost using in house labor

The county prison board is hoping the use of in-house labor will reduce the cost of a signal amplifier that has to be installed before guards can begin using recently purchased portable radios.

Butler County Prison warden Beau Sneddon told the board Tuesday, Aug. 19, the cost of the bidirectional amplifier was much higher than he had hoped for, but the cost could be reduced if maintenance staff can install the wiring for the 17 new antennas needed to transmit radio signals throughout the prison.

“This BDA quote is way more than I thought. We didn’t expect to need 17 antennas,” Sneddon said.

However, the $165,500 price quote from Capital Communications can be reduced 5% because it was obtained through state contract pricing, and

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