City commissioners quickly took care of a short business agenda at Monday night’s meeting.
Commissioners approved the bid of $99,081.06 to purchase a chassis diesel engine bucket truck from Equipment Technology LLC (ETI). Commissioners also approved a consent agenda including facilities use agreements with the Heart of Oklahoma Youth Rodeo Association and also with Tim Gray for an event at Crystal Beach Park… READ MORE
The Texas Commission on State Emergency Communications (CSEC) adopted AT&T ESInet as its NextGen9-1-1 platform to transition 17 Regional Planning Commission (RPC) public safety answering points (PSAPs) to NG9-1-1. The first nine counties, which are part of the Nortex RPC, recently went live with AT&T ESInet serving nearly 80,000 Texans with a more reliable and improved 9-1-1 experience.
AT&T ESInet is built on AT&T’s IP network. The IP-based call routing service uses i3 standards from the National Emergency Number Association (NENA) to modernize legacy 9-1-1 infrastructure… READ MORE
There is a lot happening this month. Unfortunately, since Congress is taking its usual August break, there won’t be any further action to repeal the T-Band nor will there be any activity in Next-Generation 9-1-1 (NG911) funding. Further, there does not appear to be any progress in coordinating, funding, and finally serving many in rural America who still do not have access to broadband. Meanwhile, the FCC has turned down petitions from both the Edison Electric Institute (EEI) and the Association of Public Safety Communications Officials (APCO) that call for a stay of the order issued by the FCC in April 2020 permitting secondary use of the already heavily used 6-GHz spectrum…
An audit of the state’s 911 emergency phone line operations found that Utah’s largest dispatch center hasn’t met national call answering standards in more than five years, forcing thousands of callers a year to wait more than a minute to report emergencies.
That finding and others were released Tuesday in a legislative audit, a follow-up to one released in December 2019 that looked at the Utah Communications Authority (UCA) and the state’s 911 emergency operations. It found compatibility issues between agencies’ different radio systems…
When dealing with a medical emergency, minutes and even seconds can be the difference between life and death.
Grant County Central Dispatch workers are in the process of being trained in Emergency Medical Dispatch (EMD) to be able to talk 911 callers through ways they can help manage medical situations while an ambulance is on the way, according to Public Safety Communications Director Michael Clayton…
Two years ago, Kosciusko County government embarked on having a health and wellness program for its employees.
On Tuesday, the county commissioners recognized some employees for their success in a walking program.
“We’re now in the second year, and we’ve had several programs. We’ve seen some decreases in some of the numbers. And, two years in a row, we’ve done a Walk-IN that’s managed by Purdue Extension,” County Administrator Marsha McSherry told the county commissioners at their meeting Tuesday…
