Broomfield council to consider $385,000 share of regional emergency communications upgrade
The proposed payment would fund Broomfield’s share of a $1.45 million upgrade intended to eliminate a single point of failure and preserve regional emergency communications during catastrophic outages.
Broomfield City Council is scheduled to consider committing $384,995.91 in 2027 E911 funds to a regional emergency-communications upgrade designed to keep the system operating if its primary control site fails. The proposal is included in the city’s Sept. 8 agenda packet as Resolution 2026-109, a consent-agenda item. The available packet does not include a vote record, so the agreement remains pending.
The upgrade would replace the Adams County Communications Center Authority’s legacy Motorola ASTRO 25 G-Series infrastructure with a virtualized system featuring a redundant virtual prime site and a geographically separate backup site, according to the staff memo and project exhibit.
The documents say the changes would eliminate the primary site as a single point of failure, allow the backup site to take over automatically during a catastrophic failure, maintain wide-area communications for participating agencies and improve system availability. The project also is intended to simplify maintenance and improve scalability.
ADCOM initiated the upgrade in March 2026, the staff memo says. Broomfield would have until March 31, 2027, to pay its share.
The total project cost is listed as $1,454,429, divided among three agencies according to console counts:
| Agency | Console share | Project cost share |
|---|---|---|
| Adams County Communications Center Authority | 17 of 34 | $727,214.50 |
| Thornton | 8 of 34 | $342,218.59 |
| Broomfield | 9 of 34 | $384,995.91 |
| Total | 34 of 34 | $1,454,429.00 |
Broomfield’s nine consoles include seven dispatch consoles and two emergency-operations-center consoles. The one-time payment would be separate from ongoing operations and maintenance charges. The packet lists Broomfield’s 2026 annual charge as $21,836; under the proposed agreement, it would increase 3% each Jan. 1 beginning in 2027, reaching $22,491.08 in 2027. Broomfield also would be responsible for annual shares of certain system-upgrade and resilience costs, plus actual costs tied to its public-safety answering point and a share of Front Range communications support.