July 23, 2014 at 2:10 p.m.
Reverse 911 is reviewed (03/07/06)
Jay County Commissioners
By By MARY ANN LEWIS-
County officials continue to pursue the capability of notifying a large number of residents of impending disasters, and Jay County Commissioners Monday afternoon heard another presentation addressing that concern.
Following the tornadoes that struck southern Indiana late last year, commissioners Milo Miller Jr., Gary Theurer, and Faron Parr expressed concern about Jay County residents in the event that a disaster would strike here.
Andrea Wagner, territory manager for Sigma Communications, Indianapolis, explained the company’s trademark Reverse 911 interactive community notification system Monday.
“This is a one stop shop for any kind of information you need to make available to the community,” Wagner explained.
Reverse 911 is an emergency telephone notification system that provides service users in a unit with a telephone warning of an emergency situation through a computerized warning system that uses the 911 database and technology, she said.
Sharing the system with surrounding counties would help reduce the cost of installing and utilizing the system, she added.
Effective, July 1, state senate bill 283 will allow counties throughout the state to use 911 telephone system fees to implement such a system, Jay County 911 director, Bill Baldwin, told commissioners.
Currently those fees are to be used only for maintenance and updating of 911 systems.
Jay County Sheriff Todd Penrod explained that currently, most of those funds are used for the 911 system, and cost for the installation and maintenance of Reverse 911 will have to be addressed.
Questioning Wagner about residents who may not be at home or unable to answer telephones if such a message is relayed, she said, “It’s not a 100 percent fool-proof system,” adding that no system can offer that guarantee.
Commissioners asked Wagner to come up with cost estimates for a Reverse 911 system for Jay County.
Also Monday afternoon, commissioners approved a request from Jay County Assessor Anita Mills to purchase software for calculating the county’s personal property tax assessment for her office’s computer system.
Mills told commissioners the cost from ASTwo Propman, Noblesville, will be $10,250.
The county has struggled with purchasing software in the past few months since provider Plexis was acquired by Manatron.[[In-content Ad]]
Following the tornadoes that struck southern Indiana late last year, commissioners Milo Miller Jr., Gary Theurer, and Faron Parr expressed concern about Jay County residents in the event that a disaster would strike here.
Andrea Wagner, territory manager for Sigma Communications, Indianapolis, explained the company’s trademark Reverse 911 interactive community notification system Monday.
“This is a one stop shop for any kind of information you need to make available to the community,” Wagner explained.
Reverse 911 is an emergency telephone notification system that provides service users in a unit with a telephone warning of an emergency situation through a computerized warning system that uses the 911 database and technology, she said.
Sharing the system with surrounding counties would help reduce the cost of installing and utilizing the system, she added.
Effective, July 1, state senate bill 283 will allow counties throughout the state to use 911 telephone system fees to implement such a system, Jay County 911 director, Bill Baldwin, told commissioners.
Currently those fees are to be used only for maintenance and updating of 911 systems.
Jay County Sheriff Todd Penrod explained that currently, most of those funds are used for the 911 system, and cost for the installation and maintenance of Reverse 911 will have to be addressed.
Questioning Wagner about residents who may not be at home or unable to answer telephones if such a message is relayed, she said, “It’s not a 100 percent fool-proof system,” adding that no system can offer that guarantee.
Commissioners asked Wagner to come up with cost estimates for a Reverse 911 system for Jay County.
Also Monday afternoon, commissioners approved a request from Jay County Assessor Anita Mills to purchase software for calculating the county’s personal property tax assessment for her office’s computer system.
Mills told commissioners the cost from ASTwo Propman, Noblesville, will be $10,250.
The county has struggled with purchasing software in the past few months since provider Plexis was acquired by Manatron.[[In-content Ad]]
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