Town officials last week voted in favor of a $13,475 contract with a Naugatuck-based communications company to move public safety antennas and other equipment back to one of the water towers at Waveny.
Cellphone, public safety and public works antennas had been temporarily mounted on scaffolding around a tower while it’s being repainted—a project that should wrap up by June, according to First Selectman Kevin Moynihan.
At that time, “they will remount the antennas on top of the tank,” Moynihan said during the March 10 Board of Selectmen meeting, held at Town Hall.
“We have already paid for most of this, this is an add-on because of the equipment,” he said.
The first selectman participated in the meeting by telephone.
Moynihan and Selectmen Kit Devereaux and Nick Williams voted 3-0 in favor of the contract with NorcomCT.
Joseph Zagarenski, senior engineer in the Department of Public Works, said the funds cover about $11,500 in “cabling and connectors to take the antennas that are in their temporarily location on the scaffolding, and move them back to the water tower.”
“And then there is $2,220 to retest and do final connections on our end,” he said.
Williams asked whether the funds are in the budget for this fiscal year. Zagarenski said yes, the “Emergency Communications Radio Project.”