Here is our purchase agreement from our last 2001 we had installed in Richfield in March 2017.
The proposed siren is a 2001-DC Squareback which stands abandoned after it replaced a Sterling M-10 in Mantua (in neighboring Portage County) in the early 1990’s. However, the Village of Mantua presumably deemed the new siren too loud, had the old M-10 removed from the old fire station and it was refurbished both mechanically and cosmetically by the fire department and reinstalled on top of an old windmill tower downtown at Village Hall/PD. The 2001 was subsequently disconnected from power after the M-10 was placed back into service (it is 8/16 Port Model from 1957) and was put on a timer which sets the siren off for one minute every Sunday around noon or shortly after noon (and is also activated manually or by radio for tornado warnings); the 2001 is down the road behind Crestwood High School and has been sitting abandoned ever since.
Anyways, back to our town here; here’s the purchase agreement for the siren installed in March of 2017.
Originally Federal Field Services quoted us $32,000 but according to the agreement and the invoice from FS which is attached in the link the grand total came down to $23,682.60 probably with the help of grant money. Here is the link: http://www.richfieldvillageohio.org/Doc ... PDF?bidId=
Does anyone know a preliminary cost to install an older 2001-DC (and possibly both estimates with and without having to replace the old controller boxes) and adding an AC/DC rectifier and Yagi antenna? I’m assuming it would be less than the cost for a new 2001-130, but that info would be great...either PM me if you know or reply here (although a PM would probably be best as manufacturers don’t necessarily like their prices being public although in the invoice the prices are there because it’s constituted as public records and therefore had to be released per Ohio law.
Thanks!
I’ll let everyone know the status of this project as it progresses (with the exception of confidential stuff should we get to the Village Council level to negotiate and present this idea to them)! Right now the best thing would be to add one “new” siren to the system in best interest of the town budget.