(USA) Help for E911
Saturday, March 26th, 2005From News-Miner.
Fairbanks, Alaska, is finding that even charging the maximum allowable surcharge of 75c per phone line and wireless phone, they come up short in funding E911 services. They want to change the law to allow a maximum surcharge of $2 per phone line or cell phone so that the E911 service can be fully funded.
Currently, the funding shortfall is made up by the city’s taxpayers, mostly through higher property taxes and to a lesser extent alcohol and other taxes.