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MOUNDS VIEW Item No: 8E <br />Meeting Date:04/26/2021 <br />Type of Business: Council Business <br />Administrator Review: <br />City of Mounds View Staff Report <br />To: Honorable Mayor and City Council <br />From: Nate Harder, Chief of Police <br />Item Title/Subject: Resolution 9416 Approving the Purchase of 25 Motorola <br />police portable radios <br />Introduction: <br />The police department is scheduled to replace all of our portable police radios in 2021. <br />This expense has been put off from 2020 and the radios are at the far end of their <br />operational lives. <br />Discussion: <br />The department is requesting to purchase twenty five Motorola police portable radios <br />off of state bid, offered by Motorola Solutions Inc. Our police portable radios are in poor <br />shape having reached the end of their expected service life. These radios had been <br />budgeted in 2020, but were put off for 2021 for purchase. SBM has given us <br />replacement radios that we have had reprogrammed to our needs and are to the point <br />where we are cannibalizing what radios we have for spare parts to make repairs. <br />The Motorola radios come to a total of $92,839.25 (Fund 460-4200-7030). <br />Recommendation: <br />Staff recommends authorizing the purchase of twenty five Motorola police portable <br />radios. <br />Respectfully Submitted, <br />Nate Harder <br />Chief of Police <br />