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Clermont County commissioners weigh modest increase to 9-1-1 dispatch billing after five-year freeze
Summary
County staff presented options to adjust 9-1-1 dispatch billing after holding rates at an earlier level for five years. The board asked staff to prepare updated bills using an intermediate rate for jurisdictions' 2026 budgets and to return with a formal decision next week.
Clermont County officials discussed whether to change the fee charged to local jurisdictions for use of the county 9-1-1 communications center after holding the rate flat for five years.
Emily Akers, director of the Office of Management and Budget and 9-1-1 billing lead, told the board the county has held billing at the 2019 rate through expenses for 2020–2023 and that the county has absorbed nearly $348,000 in the difference during that period. Akers described three illustrative per-dispatch figures from the center’s cost-allocation formula: the 2019 rate the county held for several years, an intermediate “2021” rate and the full…
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