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Paducah-McCracken 9-1-1 board projects $466,470 shortfall for FY 2025-26; city and county to split gap
Summary
The Paducah-McCracken 9‑1‑1 administrative board reported a projected $466,470 shortfall for fiscal year 2025–26 and presented a budget that would require the city and county to each cover about $233,000 of the deficit; presenters said one-time radio-project purchases drove last year’s higher costs.
Jeff Parker, chairman of the Paducah–McCracken 9‑1‑1 administrative board, told the Paducah City Commission on March 25 that the system’s proposed 2025–26 budget includes a projected $466,470 shortfall and would require the city and McCracken County to split the gap.
Parker said the administrative board’s expense total for fiscal year 2024–25 was about $3.8 million and that the 2025–26 proposed budget is $3,342,970. “Fiscal year ’24, ’25 expenses basically 3,800,000,” Parker said. He told commissioners the one-time purchases for a radio project drove last year’s higher spending and that reducing those one-time costs accounts for much of the year‑to‑year…
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