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Quorum Court amends 2025 budget to fund 9-1-1 battery backup; ordinance passes
Summary
The Saline County court approved an amended 2025 budget ordinance (recorded in the meeting as 2025-18) to use reimbursement grant funds to pay for a battery backup at the consolidated 9-1-1 center after members cited multiple recent outages. The ordinance passed on a roll-call vote.
Saline County’s Quorum Court voted to amend the 2025 budget to fund a battery-backup system for the consolidated 9-1-1 dispatch center, citing repeated outages that interrupted emergency calls.
Speaker 4 and Justice Curtis described recent failures: the court heard that the 9-1-1 center lost power three times in five days, creating brief periods when callers were disconnected while waiting for a transfer switch or…
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