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SIKESTON -- Setting up an up-to-date, consolidated E-911 center may cost seven figures.
Representatives from the city of Sikeston and Scott County met Thursday with AT&T reps to discuss preliminary cost estimates to set up a communications center that would take E-911 calls and dispatch for both the city and county.
As setting up the center will mean purchasing new 911 equipment, computer-aided dispatching software and a records management system that all work together, "I think we're looking at a million dollars," said Drew Juden, director of the Sikeston Department of Public Safety. "We need to look at how we cost share that."
Juden later added that he believes the city and county should "split it down the middle."
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