Subject: [NEXTEL-1] Volunteer firefighter named to 9-1-1 board

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Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2003 00:35:17 -0400

Volunteer firefighter named to 9-1-1 board

By Glenda Taylor
The Daily Times

Published October 10, 2003

A new board of directors member was
sworn in for the Kerr Emergency 9-1-1
Network Tuesday, and introduced during
the meeting Thursday.

Tom Michals of Hunt, representing the
Kerr Area Rural Fire Association, was a
volunteer for the Hunt VFD and prior to
moving to the area was a volunteer with
the Somerset, Mich., VFD. Michals will
replace Travis Hall. 9-1-1 Network
Executive Director Bill Amerine said an
orientation was planned for Michals on
the public safety answering point.

Amerine brought a contract to renew the
radio repeater leases with All Points
Communications before the board.

The contract was changed from a
three-year agreement to a year-to-year
contract, Amerine explained.

“Services are absolutely the same,” he
said, adding that All Points had no
intention of increasing prices and the
contract had a provision where either
party could terminate the contract. The
contract covers a fixed base radio
transmitter relay station, antenna and
other equipment and VHF radio
frequencies.

Board members approved the contract.

The board discussed the SBC 9-1-1
wireless service tariff of $9,538.29.
Amerine said after comparing SBC with
other wireless 9-1-1 services, SBC was
found to be a “pretty good deal.” The SBC
service offers routes to the PSAP,
call-back information and caller location,

The funding would come out of capital
expenditures.

“We have the money to do this,” Amerine
said, adding the five-year contract would
amount to about $2,000 per year, and
would most likely provide a savings.

Board members approved payment of the
tariff.

In other business:

• Amerine said call volume with regard to
the address cards mailed out to residents
had dropped off.

Out of 12,531 cards mailed to rural Kerr
County, 347 were returned as
non-deliverable, despite using the latest
addresses provided by Kerr Central
Appraising District. In Ingram, of the 975
cards sent out, only 39, or one percent,
were returned. Response to the blue
numbered address signs has been an
“overwhelming success,” Amerine said.
There have been more than 500 of the $5
address signs sold. The signs are sold by
the 9-1-1 Network at cost to residents.

Glenda Taylor may be reached at
[email-masked].

http://web.dailytimes.com/story.lasso?wcd=7672

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