In a Gatesville City Council meeting held on Tuesday, a resolution was adopted authorizing the creation of the Central Texas Regional 911 Emergency Communications District (ECD) through the Central Texas Council of Governments (CTCOG), which administers the state’s 911 program for the city.
MERIDEN —The Planning Commission unanimously approved plans to build a 6,000-square foot emergency dispatch center at 32 W. Main St. next to the police station.
The single-story center will serve as a communications and operations hub for the city’s police, fire and ambulance departments. The project includes merging the city-owned lots at 32 and 50 West Main Street to create a 16,093-square foot lot between the Meriden Senior Center and the Meriden Police Department.
A Moniteau County emergency dispatcher listened to a 911 call come from her own home on Sunday.
Moniteau County 911 and Emergency Dispatch shared that one of its staff members was on duty when a 911 call came in from her daughter stating that their home was on fire.
People calling 911 in East Hampton Town won’t notice a change, but come Jan. 1, for the first time in decades, calls coming from outside of East Hampton Village will be handled from the town police headquarters instead of from the village’s Emergency Services Building.
Columbiana County 911 is at risk of losing almost 30% of its state funding.
The 911 system gets funding from the state from a wireless fee. For every wireless phone in the county they get .40 cents. That fee is set to drop to .25 cents in October.
