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Jamestown\u00a0 (CSi)\u00a0 Jamestown Voters on November 6, will decide if the 9-1-1 emergency phone service charge, should be increased monthly from $1 a month of up to $1.50 per month.<\/p>\nJamestown\u00a0 (CSi)\u00a0 Jamestown Voters on November 6, will decide if the 9-1-1 emergency phone service charge, should be increased monthly from $1 a month of up to $1.50 per month.<\/p>\n
On Wednesday\u2019s Wayne Byers Show on CSi Cable 2, Stutsman County Emergency Manager, and 9-1-1 Coordinator Jerry Bergquist said, a \u201cYes\u201d vote means you approve the measure, a \u201cNo\u201d vote means you do not approve of the increase.<\/p>\n
He said if the measure fails, the additional financial burden will continue to be placed on the Stutsman County General Fund.<\/p>\n
If the measure is approved by voters, based on 2017 revenues, and additional $130,00 in revenues would be generated to help operate the Communications Center, together with other funds.<\/p>\n
He added that the county receives 85-cents to 90-cents for each $1.50 it collects which includes the 50-cents paid directly to the state.<\/p>\n
Bergquist pointed out that the 9-1-1 funds produced from the current $1 fee on both landline and cellular phones has slowly been declining, resulting in less revenue to apply for dispatch equipment replacement.<\/p>\n
In 2017 the revenue generated from the current 9-1-1 fee at $1 per land line and cell phone total $234,397, which only paid for 30 -percent in operational costs, with hardly any money set aside for equipment replacement, and greater burden place on other county general fund to make up the difference.<\/p>\n
The LEC\u2019s Dispatch Center is staffed with two dispatchers per shift 24 hours, seven days a week.<\/p>\n
Bergquist\u2019s appearance on our show was not meant to promote the increase, but only providing \u00a0informational topics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Jamestown\u00a0 (CSi)\u00a0 Jamestown Voters on November 6, will decide if the 9-1-1 emergency phone service charge, should be increased monthly from $1 a month of up to $1.50 per month. On Wednesday\u2019s Wayne Byers Show on CSi Cable 2, Stutsman County Emergency Manager, and 9-1-1 Coordinator Jerry Bergquist said, a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":12374,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-155266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-jamestown"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155266","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=155266"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155266\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":155267,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155266\/revisions\/155267"}],"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=155266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=155266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=155266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}