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E911 facing financial dilemma
Published Monday, July 13, 2009
Butler County E911 is finding itself facing a significant financial hurdle as more people give up landline telephone service in favor of cellular phones.
Greenville Mayor Dexter McLendon, E911 chairperson, told county commissioners on Monday that E911 is losing an estimated $1,000 per month because people are giving up residential telephones.
And McLendon anticipates the problem getting worse.
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“We’re holding on right now and it’s not easy,” said McLendon.
Residents and businesses pay a surcharge of $2 for E911 service. Cellular phone uses pay .70 cents.
McLendon said, like many state and local entities, E911 is seeing a rise in expenditures that corresponds with a decrease in revenue.
He said Greenville provides $100,000 in annual funding to E911, while the county contributes $40,000. He asked that commissioners consider increasing that amount prior to the beginning of the next fiscal year.
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Posted by Shane (anonymous) on July 13, 2009 at 8:51 p.m. (Suggest removal)
WHAT ABOUT A BUTLER CO. HUNTING PERMIT FOR THOSE OUTSIDE OF THE COUNTRY AND STATE WHO COME HERE TO HUNT?
When I was a boy growing up in Beat 1.You could buy a State permit and Union Camp hunting permit and hunt any place in Butler Co. unless it was private land.I use to ride my ATV and hunt for arrowheads and travel 70 miles on dirt roads or backroads without being on a paved road more than 3 miles but today you cant! The people who come from out of state least up all this land with locked gates and you have no freedom for the locals any more+look at all the deer heads,skins left along the highway all over the country and those people in the hunting clubs could care less on how they leave Butler Co. after hunting season is over.
And of course you might say that if Butler co. did that that they might go to another country but they wont cause hunting and fishing is the best in the state here as I believe+ as sad as it is they rent up old home places of people we knew as kids to stay at during the hunting season very cheap so they wont go to other places cause they have it to good and inside those locked gates.It looks like a small fort with so many trucks,atvs,guns Ive never seen before or heard fire before and I just wounder how many people their really are or who they are?
So if we had them buy a Butler Co. hunting permit? They would pay cause they have the money and they want to hunt and Butler co. would have the money to pay for the 911 and for repaving the roads and may be the upkeep of schools,be able to hire more Butler co. law enforcement people to keep the roads and home more safer......
Posted by CKNLKN (anonymous) on July 15, 2009 at 12:51 p.m. (Suggest removal)
Does one really have to wonder why more people are swapping to cell phones? Having a cell phone is cheaper than having residential phone service these days and, might I add, more convenient. I would rather donate $2 a month to E911 rather than pay the $30 difference between my cell phone bill and residential bill.
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