Elko County 911 Board approves five-year master plan, asks for server-cost clarification

The Elko County Enhanced 911 Board voted May 7 to approve an updated five-year master plan, with members asking staff to add language on a backup dispatch center and clarify capital and recurring-cost assumptions.

"It's pretty comprehensive," Board member Matt Peterson said while presenting the plan and offered to add backup dispatch center and mobile communications language. Board discussion honed in on the projected costs for a server upgrade; one member said the server upgrade estimate in the project tracker appears understated and "will actually be somewhere in the neighborhood of 4, 400 to $500,000 and then an ongoing cost of approximately 100 to 200" thousand dollars for ongoing costs. The chair said the change would be brought back to the board for a future meeting.

The board amended the motion to include county legal authority language tied to the statutes noted in the plan and then voted to approve the document as revised. The chair said the master-plan presentation will also be delivered to the county commission next month, with Lee Cadmus likely presenting the update unless the date is moved.

The approved document outlines governance models, funding and capital priorities, end-to-end communications goals and a project tracker intended to guide priority investments over the coming five years. The board directed staff to return with refined cost numbers for large items before commission consideration.