After at least 10 years of brainstorming and back-and-forth, an E-911 Joint Communications Center that houses dispatch representatives from the City of Columbus and Platte County is up and running.
The facility, located within the Administration Building at Columbus Municipal Airport, directs all emergency calls to one centralized location where city and county dispatchers work as a single unit to ensure an appropriate, rapid response is given, every single time.
“The idea of this project goes back 10-12 years, if not more,” Columbus Mayor Jim Bulkley said of the center, which officially opened Oct. 1. “The city and the county prior to this (happening) couldn’t…. Read More
