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Copperas Cove council hears presentation on creating regional 9-1-1 district to route 50-cent fee to CTCOG
Summary
City staff and a Central Texas Council of Governments representative outlined a proposal to form an emergency communications (9-1-1) district that would remit a 50-cent per-phone fee directly to the regional council to fund next-generation 9-1-1 infrastructure; no formal action was taken during the April 15 workshop.
Copperas Cove city officials heard a presentation April 15 on creating a regional emergency communications district that would direct a 50-cent per-phone 9-1-1 fee to the Central Texas Council of Governments for local use.
City Manager Ryan Haverlaw told the council that “anybody that has a phone pays a fee as part of their bill to have that phone that goes to 9-1-1 services,” and that under the proposed district the 50-cent fee “would now be remitted directly to” the regional body rather than flowing first through the state.
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