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Dearborn County moves to renew 9-1-1 GIS software contract, seek counsel approval and apply for state seed grant
Summary
The commissioners approved asking county counsel to process a $50,000, five-year contract renewal with DATAMARK for 9-1-1 GIS software and authorized staff to apply for a separate up-to-$30,000 state “seed” grant to validate and improve county address and GIS data.
The Dearborn County Board of Commissioners on March 18 authorized staff to seek county-counsel approval of a five-year contract with DATAMARK for a 9-1-1 VEP editor software package and voted to apply for a state seed grant to validate county GIS and addressing data.
The authorization asks counsel to process a $50,000 contract that the county would pay as $10,000 per year over five years. Nicole Bailey, the county’s director of planning and zoning, told commissioners the software helps the county meet NENA (National Emergency Numbering Association) standards and supports validation of address points, centerlines and jurisdictional boundaries used in 9-1-1 dispatch systems.
“the contract is $50,000, but that will be $10,000 every year that we have the…
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