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Island County commissioners place 0.2% sales-tax measure for ICOM 911 on April ballot
Summary
Island County commissioners voted unanimously to submit a countywide 0.2% sales and use tax measure to voters on the April 22, 2025 special election ballot to fund upgrades to the county—s 911 communications infrastructure operated by ICOM 911.
The Board of Island County Commissioners voted unanimously Feb. 18 to place a ballot proposition before voters on April 22, 2025 to impose a 0.2% sales and use tax to fund upgrades to the countywide 9-1-1 communications center known as ICOM 911.
Sofia Cofield, director of ICOM 911 (Island County Emergency Services Communication Center), told commissioners the center answers roughly 93,000 calls a year for about 88,000 county residents and thousands of visitors and that its current dispatch and radio systems are aging and vulnerable to outages.
"Our current emergency dispatch system is about 4 decades old, and it's struggling to meet the increasing demands of our community," Cofield said. "What we are proposing is a sales tax measureit would be 2 tenths of a percent sales tax increase. That's an additional 2¢ for every $10 spent to fund critical upgrades to our 9-1-1…
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