Pueblo residents with telephone lines will pay about a dollar more each month per phone to fund the city’s 911 communications center.

Pueblo Police Chief Troy Davenport presented the fee increase to Pueblo City Council on Monday night.

Since 2009, the city of Pueblo has received 70 cents each month from phones linked to Pueblo, collected by the state Department of Revenue. Council’s change raises the emergency 911 surcharge to $1.72 for each phone per month… READ MORE