The Montgomery County Council today gave tentative approval to spending $2.5 million to construct a site for the County’s Radio Shop, which will install and maintain the new 800 megahertz Public Safety Mobile Radio System, and specified that the building be done on a site already owned by the County on Crabbs Branch Way.
"Locating the radio shop at the Crabbs Branch facility saves us the estimated $1 million we would’ve had to pay to buy other land," said Councilmember Betty Ann Krahnke, who chairs the Council’s Public Safety Committee.
The Crabbs Branch Way property abuts a large school bus facility operated by the Montgomery County Public Schools system.
"We are saving money, saving time, and putting the facility where much of the work will be done," said Councilmember Marilyn Praisner, chair of the Management and Fiscal Policy Committee. "It also supports the Council initiative to transfer the current police radios to MCPS for use in school buses."