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Supervisor reports E911 budget amendment after state demands county remittance; Motorola radios funded from reserves
Summary
A supervisor reported the county's E911 board is buying Motorola radios for rural departments and said the state recently required counties to remit funds to cover a shortfall, billing counties quarterly without prior estimates, prompting a local budget amendment.
At committee reports, a supervisor updated the board on the E911 association's recent meeting and a budget amendment taken to accommodate purchases of Motorola radios for rural departments. The supervisor said the radios are expensive — "a lot of these radios will be $10,000 a piece" — and that the association paid from reserves for initial purchases.
The supervisor also said the state has declared a shortfall in the statewide 9‑1‑1 fund and will send quarterly bills to counties for amounts that are not yet estimated. "It turns out that the state 9 1 1 system is broke," the supervisor said, adding that counties will have limited time to pay once invoices arrive. The report noted concern that county funds are being used to subsidize state shortfalls and that the local E911 group relies on those funds to equip first responders.
