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ELIZABETHTON — In a special called meeting on Monday evening, the Carter County Commission soundly voted down a bid of $3,428,687.40 for a new countywide communications system that would have provided up-to-date radio communication for 10 agencies, including law enforcement, emergency medical services, and fire departments. The motion was to vote down the $3.5 million bid and to start over with a new request for proposal for a countywide communications system.
The vote comes after extensive research has been done on a proposed new communications system for mountainous Carter County. Much of the research has been done by Capt. Tom Smith of the Carter County Sheriff’s Department. Smith told the commissioners that the project had been researched for over 15 years, with various options reviewed, to include the Tennessee Statewide System…
