
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: TUESDAY, March 27, 1990                   TAG: 9003272529
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: B3   EDITION: NEW RIVER VALLEY 
SOURCE: MADELYN ROSENBERG NEW RIVER VALLEY BUREAU
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911 PLAN GETS OK FROM BOAR

The Pulaski Board of Supervisors gave the county staff the go-ahead Monday night to take steps to implement an enhanced 911 emergency response system.

Officials expect the system, which would be used throughout the county and in the town of Pulaski if it opts to join the program, to be installed by February 1991.

In order to prepare for the new system, the county must survey all property owners by mail outside the towns to confirm the occupant and phone number for each dwelling, said County Administrator Joe Morgan.

Volunteer fire and rescue squads will help verify the information.

The county also will continue working on a naming and numbering system for streets and on converting postal addresses to that system.

Regardless of whether the town and county use the same data base, the system will require a maintenance cost, Morgan said. The board can expect to have to levy a monthly 911 tax of about 45 cents per telephone.

In other business, the board voted to provide a match grant for a Drug Abuse Resistance Education program if the state does not come through with 100 percent of the funding. The county would provide $10,381 for the $41,926 project.

by CNB