Tuesday, March 21, 2006
By Edward HusarHerald-Whig Staff Writer
A proposal to authorize the Quincy/Adams County 911 Governing Board to borrow $1.3 million to finance various costs associated with the implementation of an enhanced 911 system ran into choppy water at the Quincy City Council's Finance Committee meeting Monday night.
The 911 Governing Board wants to borrow $1.3 million to help finance the construction of a new 911 communication center and the need to buy an enhanced 911 network, telephone and radio communication equipment and other costs.
FY2004-2005 Call and Incident Statistics
(May 1, 2004-April 30, 2005)
Call-Taking: Quincy-area 9-1-1 calls: 24,970 - 57%
Rural county 9-1-1 calls: 1,357 - 3%
Wireless 9-1-1 calls: 17,459 - 40%
Total 9-1-1 Calls: 43,786 - 100%
9-1-1 calls: 43,786 - 30%
Non-Emergency and Administrative calls: 97,301 - 68%
Alarm line calls: 2,591 - 2%
Total All Calls: 143,678 - 100%
Computer Aided Dispatch (CAD) Incidents:
Quincy Police 41,405 - 67.3%
Adams County Sheriff 10,114 - 16.5%
Quincy Fire 3,599 - 5.9%
Tri-Township Fire 246 - 0.4%
Adams County Ambulance 5,814 - 9.5%
Volunteer Fire Departments 303 - 0.5%
Total CAD Incidents: 61,481 - 100.0%
Total all calls to 911 center : 205,159
FY2004-2005 Operating & Capital Budget
(May 1, 2004-April 30, 2005)
Fiscal 2004-2005 Operating Budget $1,049,538
Fiscal 2004-2005 "City" E9-1-1 Capital Budget $405,000
Fiscal 2004 "County" E9-1-1 Capital Budget* $270,000
Total Budget : $1,724,538
Cost per call into the 911 Center : $8.41
Remove all but the 43,786 - 911 calls and the price goes to : $39.38
6 comments:
Also include the WETSA funds that will be exhausted by May. Around $800,000.
Read the post again and need to correct my previous comment. $270,000. and $405,000. amounts were carried over into the current fiscal year and will be exhausted along with the WETSA funds by May '06. Also consider that when E-911 is online annual operating budgets will increase up to 25%.
Your right, $39 is a lot for one phone call. However, I don’t believe the 911 governing board, of which I am a member, is planning on borrowing $1.3M dollars every year.
Adams County has a history of getting many years use from their facilities. The current courthouse is over 50 years old; the recently replaced Youth Home served the County for 50 years, and the County Highway building at 36th & Broadway was in use from 1939 through 1986, only 47 years.
The new 911 Center should last the average 50 years, which would bring the cost of a call for our $1.7M down to $0.79.
Thanks for your time,
Nick Peters
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Don't think the $1.3 million was included in these figures. This is the 04-05 operating budget. Even if you remove the "capital" numbers from the figures, it comes to $5.11 for EVERY call into the 911 center. That's still $23.96 for only the 911 calls. Although the county might get may years for the building, not very many electronic items will last over 4 years. This will force the need for additional capital expences each and every time techonolgy inproves.
Senor Badass has every right to make himself look like an idiot. I congratulate him on his success.
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