TELLER COUNTY, Colo. (KKTV) – Friday evening, the Teller County Board of County Commissioners raised concerns about the City of Colorado Springs’ request to end its participation in the El Paso-Teller County E911 Authority.
The City announced that plan on June 22. In El Paso County, the Cimarron Hills Fire Protection District has criticized the potential change, raising concerns about impacts to emergency funding and saying the plan was made “without any stakeholder input from any governmental leadership outside the City of Colorado Springs.”
Friday’s release from Teller County also highlighted a potential loss of funding, as well as arguing that Colorado Springs withdrawing from the E911 Authority would “fragment emergency response, delay communications, and create service gaps.”…