From the transcript

And so what I don't want to see the borough do is say, oh, okay, we're going to start providing services out there without the infrastructure. The agreement with the land sale here provides us that infrastructure to be able to hang equipment on their towers, which, I mean, if you guys go out there, there's— you have to use the vehicle-mounted radio, and even then, sometimes it doesn't work that good. Having the ability to hang equipment on those towers, increase the range of public safety radio equipment, um, it's in the borough's best interest, I believe, because we would save hundreds of thousands of dollars by not having to construct towers or other avenues, however it's decided. But having that ability I think cuts down on long-term, like, long-term funding of the borough trying to figure out how they're going to pay for infrastructure when they have the tools right there by selling the land and having it written in the contract. So I wrote a letter as far as that.

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