County formalizes 911 Spillman arrangement with neighboring jurisdictions

Bannock County commissioners on Tuesday signed a memorandum of understanding to formalize a long-running arrangement that allows neighboring jurisdictions to operate on the county-hosted Motorola Spillman 911 system.

"We talked about this as a group last summer. We've implemented it. It's on they are live on our system," Adam McKinney, chief technical officer, said. McKinney said Minidoka County and several cities are already live on the system and that Minidoka's clerk notified the county the MOU had not been signed on their side.

McKinney listed participating jurisdictions as Power County, the city of American Falls, the city of Rupert, the city of Heyburn and Minidoka County, and said Bannock County is running a robust pair of high-availability servers with an off-site backup to be located either at a county facility or the sheriff's office. He said Motorola will schedule a hardware upgrade "the week of the seventeenth," that the county is testing a migration from VMware to Microsoft Hyper-V, and that reusing existing servers could save money.

A commissioner moved to sign the MOU and the motion carried; commissioners voted in the affirmative.

The meeting record does not include the full MOU text or the agreement's term or cost-sharing details.