“If he came up with a way of funding it, I would love to be able to reignite” the process, Edwards said of Reed.

Edwards added that a police financial analysis of the proposal for 50 free cameras for a trial period showed that “free was not actually free.”

“The devices were free, putting (data) in the cloud was free,” he said. “For us to access it would have cost us money.”

Edwards said a three-year trial period with the company, Arizona-based Axon, would have cost the city about $4 million annually.

Because of that, he said, he decided last year not to move ahead with a trial deal . A spokesman for Green, Tyson Pruitt, said she also had concerns about the cost.

Edwards said the bid process for a longer contract also stopped cold last year. “Our concern was the long-term cost,” he said of the mayor’s administration.

Reed on Thursday disputed the financial analysis and insisted there would have been “zero cost” to the city. He also said the trial proposal was for one year, not three.

He acknowledged that the price tag for a long-term program conceivably could be $4 million to $5 million a year under models used in some police departments.