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Flathead County property owners will begin seeing a new assessment supporting the consolidated 911 dispatch center on tax bills that go out in November.

Flathead County voters approved a ballot measure in the November 2020 general election that taxes property owners to pay the cost of emergency dispatch and supporting communication services, equipment and infrastructure for the county and its municipalities. The taxes will be payable semi-annually in two equal payments.

City councils in all three incorporated cities in Flathead County — Kalispell, Columbia Falls and Whitefish — had passed resolutions in support of the levy…