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911 director urges funding for dispatch continuity, monitoring and questions $50k dark-fiber cost
Summary
911/dispatch director described a continuity kit, expanded vendor monitoring and rising maintenance costs for critical systems; he also flagged roughly $50,000 annual dark‑fiber connectivity costs between county sites that he urged the county to renegotiate.
DeKalb County’s 911/dispatch director outlined technology and continuity needs at the July 10 council meeting, asking for funding for expanded managed services and for a portable continuity kit that would allow dispatch operations to run from an alternate site during an outage.
The director described a Mevo kit: a transportable case including six phones, a cradle point and other components…
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