by AllThingsECC.com | Aug 21, 2020 | Comm Center News
The Glynn County Commission voted Thursday to keep the same tax rate for the next year.
Tamara Munson, interim chief financial officer, said the county gets 75 percent of its $110 million budget from taxes. The rest comes from fines, fees, grants and investments, among other things.
Of that 75 percent, nearly half goes to public safety — police, fire and rescue, emergency medical services and dispatch. General expenses, public works, judiciary, housing and development, recreation and debt payment make up the remainder…
by AllThingsECC.com | Aug 21, 2020 | Comm Center News
IDA, Mich. — Richard M. Barkenquast, a restaurant owner, assistant fire chief, and county emergency dispatcher who took his high-pressure duties in stride, died Aug. 14 in Regency Hospital, Sylvania. He was 69.
Mr. Barkenquast of Monroe County’s Ida Township had chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and lymphoma and suffered a stroke in 2012, his family said…
by AllThingsECC.com | Aug 21, 2020 | Comm Center News
In a move that’s been many months in the making, Harvey laid off its skeleton crew of emergency dispatchers in preparation for the city’s transition to an outsourced dispatch model that officials expect to reap significant cost savings for the cash-strapped community.
Mayor Christopher Clark did not elaborate Thursday on the layoffs or his plans for the city’s dispatch operations going forward, saying only that residents’ service would not be disrupted.
by AllThingsECC.com | Aug 21, 2020 | Comm Center News
To say 60 seconds can mean the difference between life and death is no exaggeration when it comes to a heart attack, stroke or an escalating domestic violence scenario. Yet, that’s about the number of seconds at least 17,500 callers to 911 waited before their call was answered by Utah’s largest dispatch center last year.
That’s one finding from an audit presented to the Legislative Audit Subcommittee on Tuesday. To call the results “troubling,” as Senate President Stuart Adams did, seems an understatement…
by AllThingsECC.com | Aug 21, 2020 | Comm Center News
NASHVILLE, Tenn. – In the early morning hours of March 3, a storm system moved through the state of Tennessee which produced deadly tornadoes killing 24 people, damaging over 1,500 structures and leaving over 80,000 Tennesseans without power across four counties.
In Nashville, one of those tornadoes incapacitated one of four master sites that supports a statewide land mobile radio system, severely inhibiting public safety communications across the region for the first two days of the response effort…
