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Consolidation of 9-1-1 services gains steam
9-1-1 in the News, Community | Sarah | October 9, 2009 at 7:43 am
Plans are moving forward to bring two 9-1-1 answering-and-dispatching centers that serve Jackson County under one roof by March.
Medford Police Chief Randy Schoen told the Medford City Council on Thursday that his department will ask the council to accept a $700,000 federal grant approved as an earmark in an Omnibus Appropriations Act of 2009 — then authorize spending $240,000 to upgrade radio systems and software used in the dispatch center so that all agencies in the center use the same equipment.
The request likely will come before the council at its next regular meeting.
The city and Jackson County, which operates Southern Oregon Regional Communications, are working out the details of a lease agreement that will enable the city-operated Rogue Valley Consolidated Communications to sublease space in the 15,000-square-foot emergency call center the county is building near the intersection of Table Rock and Biddle roads.
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