To help keep up with the nationwide trend of transitioning 911 services from analog to digital, county commissioners have approved two agreements for technical and software hosting services for Next Generation 9-1-1 (NG9-1-1).
At their regular meeting on Tues. Aug 19, the Polk County Board of County Commissioners (BoCC) voted unanimously to approve two agreements with a company specializing in public safety solutions, specifically with NG9-1-1.
The first agreement will be for technical services to help the county “assess, develop, and correct National Emergency Number Association (NENA) required NG9-1-1 boundary layers, and Polk County E-9-1-1 GIS datasets, for conformance with the NG9-1-1 GIS Data Model,” wrote Brad Howard, Sr. Procurement Analyst…