City Administrator Phillip Patterson announced during Tuesday’s city board meeting that the Arkansas 911 Board has chosen to cut funding to one of Benton County’s Public Safety Answering Points (PSAP).
The 911 Board voted to only fund three PSAPs, also known as 911 call centers, in Benton County, Patterson said in his administrator’s report. The county presently has four PSAPs each located in Bentonville, Rogers, rural Benton County and Siloam Springs.
In 2019, the state legislature adopted Act 660, which replaced the Arkansas Telephone Emergency Services Board with the Arkansas 911 Board. Another requirement of Act 660 is to develop a plan to provide funding for a limited number of PSAPs across the state… READ MORE
