Southwest Madison County/Granite City Area
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ISP District 11  Neighboring Counties:  Jersey, Macoupin, Montgomery, Bond, St. Clair, Clinton, St. Louis MO
Grant money helps GCPD dial up positive changes Michael Heil Of the Suburban Journals Granite City Press Record Aging equipment and the need to strengthen cellular tower signals have hampered the Granite City Police Department's ability to communicate at the north end of town. The GCPD is addressing the problem by obtaining $70,000 through two federal grants. One is a homeland security grant and the other a justice assistance grant. The money will be used to purchase a repeater and add antennas to existing cell towers along the Route 3 corridor. A repeater helps strengthen signals. "Communications is the lifeline for police officers for help and to do their jobs efficiently," Miller said.  Before the repeater is put in place, the antennas have to be secured.   "We're now beginning negotiations for the antennas," Miller said. He added that the department is hopeful to have the antennas secured by November and the repeater operational by the end of the year. According to Miller, the grants are the first of a three-phase project to improve the department's overall communications system and upgrade it to be in compliance with the Federal Communications Commission's narrow-banding mandate. The deadline for the FCC's mandate for public safety, which the GCPD falls under, is 2011. By then, the department will be required to have communication equipment in place so the FCC can divide the department's signal in half, making the other half available to another entity licensed by the FCC. The second phase is the purchase of 30 new Motorola car radios to be installed in 30 vehicles by October by a Virginia-based company. Half will be installed in unmarked cars and the others in squad cars. The cost for the radios came to about $37,000. The city was expecting to purchase the radios for about $60,000, which was added to this year's fiscal budget. By accepting an out-of-state bid, the city saved about $20,000.   "The radios we have now are 15 to 20 years old," Miler said. The third phase is a long-range plan to replace the department's aging, in-house radio system. Some parts of the system are 30 years old. Miller said the department would try to obtain grants for a new system, but hasn't started looking into procuring funding. "It's going to be costly, but the department is in need a new main radio," he said. "We're excited the mayor and council supported the upgrade in car communications and we're excited that we received funding from outside the city for the purchase of the radios at a lower cost to the city," Miller added.
Granite City Police Department Squad PD
Granite City Fire Department Website     Office 877-6114 Station 1 Shift Commander
160.35 160.42 160.44 160.8 160.89 160.92 160.95 161.1 161.25 161.28 161.46	Norfolk Southern Railway  25th/RR  Granite City	IG	KIV683
Area Fast Food Restaurants
469.025	Hardees Chain of Rocks/Rt 3	IG	?				may be....	7/10/02
d-t pairs	Taco Bell 3675 Nameoki	IG	WPKB994					6/20/01
464.6875	Taco Bell #4492 2167 Madison Ave	IG	WPBE266 Iss: 12/92		2 .1wt Digital		.4kmra Expired: 3/03	6/20/01 3/16/03
154.6 33.4	Taco Bell #4492 2167 Madison Ave	IG	WNXI552 Iss: 10/91		6 .05w 1 .1wt			6/20/01
City of Madison ZIP: 62060    Population: 4545   Phone: 618-876
3/11/01 - The city of Madison have now opened their new $1.8 million fire station.  It is 16,000 sq.ft. with five long bays to house the city's 8 trucks.  It has a kitchen, showers and capacity for 100 phone line and other amenities that allow it to be converted to a disaster-response center during a large-scale emergency.  The building has areas outside where mobile command buses from other agencies, such as ISP or a hazardous-materials units, can connect to utilities, including water and cable television.  The station also has a dispatching area, offices, a training area and a sleeping area.  The department was previously housed in an old movie theater, which Madison County will now use for office space.  The station will soon be surrounded by a community park with a walking track, picnic pavilion and new baseball diamond for Little Diamond. The new building is shaped like a saw tooth and features 5 bays where the city can store all of its emergency vehicles including a new $500,000 95foot ladder truck with platform.
Madison Fire Department  618-876-6268 New New Old
M 89 658   older white Dodge Ram Charger (Fire Inspector? 8/5/01) M 89 664   old white w/red Chevy Van (Fire Inspector?) M 89 865   old red Chevy Van lts on top (Fire Inspector?) M 105 610  older PU truck (behind FD) M 118 354  96? white Chevy Caprice "Fire Chief" (8/5/01) Heard Street Department?  Madison truck 10 to Madison Truck 11 (3/04)
Gateway International Motorsports Company (Raceway)
	Gateway International Raceway
Village of Pontoon Beach Population: 5620   ZIP: 62040
Municipal Building Rear
Pontoon Beach Police Department    618-931-5100 ext. 10 #1 Regency Drive (was 3910 Hwy 111)   PD@Municipal Building (above)
Long Lake Volunteer Fire Department   4113 Pontoon Road, Pontoon Beach  Fire Station Fire Trucks 2109

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