Clallam: Clallam leaders to giver voters call on 9-1-1 tax

Published 12:01 am Tuesday, August 12, 2003

PORT ANGELES — Clallam County commissioners are expected Aug. 19 to place a proposed one-tenth of 1 percent sales tax increase on the Nov. 4 ballot, allowing voters to decide additional funding for emergency communications.

County Administrator Dan Engelbertson and the commissioners discussed during a Monday work session a resolution calling the election.

If voters approve, the tax would be used to obtain funds for costs associated with financing, designing, constructing, equipping, operating, maintaining, remodeling, repairing, re-equipping and improving the enhanced 9-1-1 communications systems and facilities, the resolution states.

The tax revenues would be distributed to Peninsula Communication, PenCom, the 9-1-1 center in Port Angeles and to the city of Forks, which has its own dispatch center.

Meanwhile a committee of Port Angeles community leaders has been formed to campaign in support of the emergency communications enhancement funding measure.

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The rest of this story appears in Tuesday’s Peninsula Daily News.