PIERRE — The Pierre City Commission has approved the purchase of new radio equipment to replace radios damaged by recent severe weather. Pierre Police Chief Jason Jones says 10 radio units were damaged by lightning during storms on June 12th…
Jones says officials from the state Bureau of Information and Technology along with private radio vendors tried to piecemeal equipment together from the damaged radios…
Delivery of the new radios could be around 120 days but Jones says he wanted to make sure the proper channels were using with considerations towards insurance claims…
The total cost of the radios with programming and installation is just over 75-thousand 700-dollars.
