Communication is located within the 911 dispatch center in downtown dubuque. Its called edacs, a system thats been around since the mid 1980s. Dubuque has used edacs since 1997. The system works great. Its just that as soon as that date comes along, if something goes down, they are not going to be able to send it to the company, because the company is no longer going to support that. By july 1, 2018, the county 9 11 communication s board will need to upgrade to whats called the p25 system. That new system is the national standard, but comes with a hefty price tag. They way we did it back in 1997, the county supervisors paid for it. But we were able to use a Public Private partnership with racom, in order to get that cost down. The 911 communication s board is investigating similar partnerships for ways to fund the project. Berger says the board is also currently dealing with budget shortfalls due an increase in cell phone use. The board receives one dollar per month from the 911 surcha
Iowa medicaid recipients feel like their voices have finally been heard. Heard. Working together were seeing that we do have power, all the sudden that one person, one vote, that sticking together is starting to make a differenen. Federal administrators have put the states transition to privatelyrun program on a 60day wait. So people like rhonda have more time to digest all the new information. Information. This gives us more time to become informed on our insurance choices. Choices. This just gives them more time to do that, more time to make a decision and to talk with their physicians and find out just what the plan is. Ssator liz mathis says although the delay was a smart move. Recipients should know the transition will happen eventually. Eventually. We cant really stop an executive order from the governor but we can clearly create legislation that allows for oversight, thats the main thing that were gonna be working on. On. We want it to be thought out. Which is whatathis says wil