Full Notification

What: Starke County Communications Committee

When: 10:00 AM Wednesday April 26, 2017

Where: Commissioners meeting room in Annex building 1, 53 E. Mound Street, Knox Indiana 46534


As you all know, good communication is the most important tool in any agency or project. In Starke County I have been put in charge by the commissioners of making a plan to fix the radio issues of the county’s VHF and 800 systems. We seem to have a break down in both our radio systems and our interagency communications throughout the county concerning the communication systems. I would like to set up a committee of people from every agency that use the county radio systems to help this process. I am also inviting ideas from anyone that has knowledge in these systems or communications as a whole. This includes outside agencies that work on the system.

The focus of this committee is to try to find the most effective ways to hard fix the communication process and system. Hard fix meaning not just putting a band aid on the problem as we have in the past, actually fixing the problem. We have had problems with our radios for years now and it’s time to formulate a plan to take care of the problem now and in to the future. I would like to have a discussion about different ideas of fixing problems permanently and preventing future problems through mitigation. We would have to brainstorm and try to come up with a 5 year plan for this system and project. Think of where you would like Starke County to be in 5 years. We need to take an educated systematic approach on this.

This radio system affects everyone in this community. The lack of coordination and communication throughout the county has been an uphill battle that I have been waging since I took this position. Hopefully this committee will elevate the interagency communication problem and correct the system issues.

If you have a radio that is on the Starke County systems please attend or send a proxy.