NORWICH – The last expenditure for Chenango County’s public safety communications tower project, begun in 2005, was authorized on Monday.

The Board of Supervisors adopted a resolution to pay out $1.5 million for base radios for the county’s six, newly erected or retrofitted towers.

The money will come from the 1 percent sale tax collection that was mandated back in 2002 for the $26 million Public Safety Facility. County officials refer to the tower project as Phase II of the new jail and Sheriff’s offices now up and running on Upper Ravine Road in Norwich.