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Juneau & Saint
Helena Site
In 2004, the Dodge County Office of Emergency
Management was faced with replacement of a 50
year old communications tower in Juneau that was
overloaded / over capacity with communications
equipment. With the help of Dodge County Board
Supervisor Harold Johnson, John Corey - Dodge
County Corporation Counsel and Dale Marks –
Sheriffs Department, the Dodge County Office of
Emergency Management finalized a joint
partnership with the U.S. Cellular Corporation
to; dismantle the current communications tower,
construct a new communications tower, and add
key improvements to the Saint Helena
Communications Tower. The specifics of the deal
included; the immediate turn over of ownership
of the new tower to the county. U.S. Cellular
will pay into an account in the amount of $950
per month up to the cost of the tower. Once the
tower is paid off, then a check will be cut
directly to the county. This will be additional
revenue for the county. The deal also involved
U.S. Cellular providing over $40,000 of
improvements to the Saint Helena Communications
Tower. These improvements were needed and if
not for the deal with U.S. Cellular, would have
come out of county funds.
Reeseville Site
In December, the
Dodge County Office of Emergency Management
added a new communications site in the Village
of Reeseville. The communications equipment and
the installation were paid for by a grant
through a Homeland Security Grant saving the
county over $136,000 in costs. The new site
filled the void of poor to zero communications
in the southwest corner of the county.
Additional Sites
Dodge County Communications sites are located at
Juneau, Saint Helena road, Beaver Dam,
Reeseville, and Leroy.
The Dodge County Office of
Emergency Management is proposing an additional
three sites and transfer of one site to improve
communications coverage in regions in the County
where police officers, fire departments, and EMS
cannot communicate via radio nor receive pages
from the E911 Communications Center. |
