Steve Bicehouse director of Butler County emergency services speaks during the Emergency Preparedness Symposium at BC3 on Wednesday September 30, 2015.

The required upgrade of the radio system used by the Butler County 911 dispatch center and emergency responders throughout the county finally is finished.

Steve Bicehouse, county emergency services director, told the county commissioners that aside from a few items on a punch list, the voluminous upgrade is now complete.

Bicehouse told the commissioners in October 2017 that the county needed to acquire new radio frequencies due to the federal government taking away the bandwidth known as the T-band spectrum.

At that time, Bicehouse estimated the project at about $14 million.

Last week, Bicehouse said the final cost to the county for the new system came in at $9.8 million.

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