{"id":154765,"date":"2018-10-03T14:35:14","date_gmt":"2018-10-03T19:35:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=154765"},"modified":"2018-10-04T07:36:51","modified_gmt":"2018-10-04T12:36:51","slug":"9-1-1-county-tax-increase-on-nov-ballot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=154765","title":{"rendered":"9-1-1 county tax increase on Nov ballot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-109030\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/PoliceDispatch-300x202.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/PoliceDispatch-300x202.jpg 300w, http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/PoliceDispatch-260x175.jpg 260w, http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/PoliceDispatch.jpg 445w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Jamestown\u00a0 (CSi)\u00a0 \u00a0Measure number one on the November \u00a0Stutsman County \u00a0ballot is a question on approving an increase of up to 50 cents per month per line to the 9-1-1 tax for the Stutsman County Communications Center and 911 services, from $1 to up to $1.50.<\/p>\n<p>Stutsman County Emergency Manager, and 9-1-1 Coordinator Jerry Bergquist says, if \u00a0voters approve the measure, the addtional tax would reduce the amount of property tax money used to keep the Communications Center operating.<\/p>\n<p>Information provided by Bergquist \u00a0to CSiNewsNow.com says:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It costs approximately $650,000 annually to operate the Communications Center, assuming there are no equipment updates needed<\/li>\n<li>Stutsman County has charged $1.00 per communications connection since November 3, 1998. The ballot measure passed by a 78.9% margin<\/li>\n<li>Beginning July 1, 2017, an additional $0.50 was legislatively mandated to be paid directly to the State of North Dakota for the State Interoperable Radio Network (SIRN) fund<\/li>\n<li>10% of the first dollar is remitted to ND Association of Counties for statewide 9-1-1 contracted services<\/li>\n<li>By law, another 5% of the entire amount collected may be kept by the telephone providers to cover their costs of collecting the fees. However, not all phone companies take their 5%<\/li>\n<li>The County currently receives $0.85 to $0.90 for each $1.50 it collects which includes the $0.50 paid directly to the State<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In 2017, the revenue generated from the current 9-1-1 fee at $1.00 per line, both wire and cell, totaled $234,397 which only paid for 30% of the operational costs, with hardly any money set aside for equipment replacement, and a greater burden placed on other county general fund to make up the difference.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>In years past, the annual 9-1-1 fees generated close to $450,000 that paid for about 50% of the operational costs of the Center with excess 9-1-1 funds set aside for dispatch equipment replacement. The remaining operational costs came from the county general fund<\/li>\n<li>The 9-1-1 funds produced from the current $1.00 fee on both landline and cellular phones has slowly been declining resulting in less revenue to apply toward rising operational costs<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Bergquist will be a guest on an upcoming Wayne Byers Show on CSi Cable 2 with additional information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jamestown\u00a0 (CSi)\u00a0 \u00a0Measure number one on the November \u00a0Stutsman County \u00a0ballot is a question on approving an increase of up to 50 cents per month per line to the 9-1-1 tax for the Stutsman County Communications Center and 911 services, from $1 to up to $1.50. Stutsman County Emergency Manager, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":12374,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-154765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=154765"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154765\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":154766,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154765\/revisions\/154766"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=154765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=154765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=154765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}