Sunday, April 20, 2014

Airwave termination

I forgot to post this video of the termination of the Airwave contract by the Hinds County Board of Supervisors a month ago. The board voted 3-2 to terminate the contract. The board awarded a $4.2 million contract to maintain the county radio system in 2008. The county was paying nearly $70,000 per month. Emergency Operations Center Director Ricky Moore said his department could assume many of the functions. Mr. Moore also discussed his rather interesting dealings with Airwave:
*One computer was not working. Airwave said it could not be repaired and should be discarded. Mr. Moore sent the computer to the county IT department. It was fixed and working the next day.

*A hail damage claim was held up as they were "awaiting a report on the damage from Airwave." The county had not received any documentation or report on the hail damage from over a year ago. Supervisor Tony Greer said Airwave claimed there was $260,000 in damage but never provided any details on the damage. Mr. Moore said no written estimate of damage had ever been provided to the county. Mr. Moore said one tower was reviewed (FOA tower) but even though there was some hail damage (busted light), the tower was "fully operational."

Posted by Kingfish at 7:41 AM

7 comments:

Anonymous said...

Keep looking, Hinds county, this is just the start of many ripoffs you can change. Good job to the "new" BOS. Keep up the great work to stop and undo any wasteful spending for work that can be done much, much cheaper and also better.

April 20, 2014 at 8:16 AM
Anonymous said...

Kenny Got That Lip Pooched Out.

April 20, 2014 at 2:26 PM
Kim Wade said...

This is the type of stewardship I think voters expect and deserve from our elected officials.
Please don't just stop with review of contracts. I'd look at any action passed that proves to be a unnecessary burden or drag on business or the citizens quiet enjoyment of their property and/or constitutional rights.
Otherwise,in my opinion, you done good!

April 20, 2014 at 2:36 PM
Anonymous said...

I honestly can't believe 3 comments (previously) has been all the attention given to this. KF has been on top of this since day 1 and somebody needs to go to jail over this mess. It takes crooked to a whole nother' level.....like crooked squared....wait, does that make it "straight"?

April 21, 2014 at 8:54 PM
Anonymous said...

The "legend's" great contribution to the entire discussion was 'could the computer problem have been misdiagnosed?'....I bet he got a headache coming up with that. As Bugs would say, 'what a maroon'.

April 22, 2014 at 10:02 AM
Anonymous said...

It IS criminal that all this money has been just handed over to these people. It was and is still now evident that they did absolutely NOTHING for which they were paid. They are STILL costing the county money to fix all the things that were neglected, things they were paid to do. Thousands and thousands more!! That money could have been spent to better Hinds County or even give the employees a raise. And, by the way, are the EOC employees getting a raise for doing what the county was previously paying $70,000.00 a month!!! I bet not, but they are expected to take up the slack.
Somebody still needs to answer for all this mispent money!! I hope this does not go away and thanks KF for keeping this in the spot light. I'm sure there are two supervisors that hope noone really LOOKS!!!!

April 22, 2014 at 12:22 PM
Anonymous said...

For once, I'm proud of the Board of supervisors.

April 23, 2014 at 6:22 PM

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