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Sarasota News Leader April 19, 2013 end when we switched centuries and that we wouldn't be able to communicate with anybody, [that] all our systems would fail unless we spent several million dollars to do upgrades. … Lo and behold, those who didn't spend several million dollars — the world didn't come to an end for them. … There wasn't even a hiccup." She also was surprised last week when staff could not answer Robinson's questions, Patterson continued. She asked staff for a report on the responses to Robinson's questions, including details about when staff did its research. Page 49 "There is some hesitancy in buying into a technology that's new," she pointed out. When the Charlotte County commissioners told the Sarasota County commissioners in a joint meeting last month that they had decided to spend several million dollars on an emergency communications system upgrade that would last for several more years, "that sounded kind of appealing," she added. "We are really going to struggle a bit in order to be able to make this happen, especially with buying new radios." A staff presentation shows the tentative timeline for installing the new emergency communications system. Image courtesy Sarasota County