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Public Works <br /> The Public Works backbone consists of 6 GE repeaters located at the Crestview site. In addition there are <br /> two backup repeaters for PW 1 and PW2 located at Skinners Butte. <br /> There are many divisions within the Public Works arena so to keep the reader interested I'll just list total <br /> numbers. We currently maintain approximately 170 mobiles and 240 portables. Most of these are of <br /> Kenwood brand. In addition we have about 4 "control stations" located at the Roosevelt facility, <br /> Wastewater, and the Sheldon EOC. The ones located at Roosevelt and Wastewater has about 15 remote <br /> controls attached to them to enable office personnel access to the radio system. Many mobiles have <br /> DTMF paging systems that will honk horns and turn on lights to tell the operators that they are needed on <br /> the radio. <br /> The city maintains an "emergency operations center" (EOC) that is housed at the Station 6 fire station <br /> near the Sheldon high school. In this center are 2 police, 2 fire, and 2 public works base stations. These <br /> allow a central location for various levels of emergencies. <br /> Miscellaneous Public Works systems include the telemetry system that is used by wastewater to monitor <br /> <br /> their pump stations. About 40 stations are on the system and they communicate with a base station <br /> located at wastewater. Also the city maintains an in-house paging system that has about 340 users. The <br /> main transmitter is located at the Crestview site. <br /> Page 12 of 12 <br /> <br />