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Falls City Council approves dispatch MOU

By John Nixon

07/05/2024

Falls City Police Dispatch Center

(KLZA)-- The Falls City Council approved a resolution authorizing the execution of a Memorandum of Understanding with Richardson County for the transfer of 911 calls to a secondary public safety answering point at the Richardson County Sheriff's Department when they met Monday.

The effective date of the agreement is July 8.

The 911 calls when go to the Falls City Police Department and if it is a call falling under the jurisdiction of the Sheriff's Office, the call will then be transferred to the Sheriff's Department.

The agreement will not include an annual payment from Richardson County to the City for the service.

Both the Falls City Police Department and the Richardson County Sheriff's Department will have their own dispatch center and their own dispatchers on duty.

911 calls outside of Falls City have been going to Southeast Communications 911 Center in Beatrice for the past three years. Richardson County initially paid $180,000 for the dispatch service the first year. When time came to renew the contract, the original proposal to Richardson County was for the fee to increase to $360,000 annually. Later that price was reduced to $200,000 for the first year of the new contract, however, Richardson County Commissioners opted not to renew the contract and began a lengthy process of reaching an agreement with Falls City.

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