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June 18, 2009

Dallas 911 address data collection is completed

By Sarah Hite shite@timesleader.com
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DALLAS -- Kathy Liljequist of GeoComm informed council Wednesday night that field crews have finished collecting data in the borough for the E-911 standardized addressing project.

GeoComm, an integrated geographic information systems (GIS) and communications consulting firm, has partnered with Luzerne County to finish 911 addressing in the county.

GeoComm is verifying and collecting addresses and gathering GIS points in 11 municipalities, including the borough.

The county received $480,000, or about 50 percent, of the funds needed for the project, from the state wireless program. The county will pay the other half of the costs.

Liljequist said that initially she was told that about 20 percent of the borough would be affected, but after meeting with Borough Manager Tracey Michael Carr, she believes most of the borough is OK.

Council member Lee Eckert asked Liljequist what would happen on a street such as Machell Avenue, where some house numbers are out of sequence. She replied that the field crews will point out such information in their data.

Any recommendations for address changes will be sent to the borough, which must approve changes before they can be made.

Liljequist said data from the project will first be sent to the county and then the borough. She expects the data to be ready by the end of August or into September.

In other business, council approved the borough’s participation in the Back Mountain Community Partnership’s inter-municipal cooperation project to apply for a state Department of Environmental Protection Energy Conservation Grant through the PA Conservation Works Recovery Grant Program.

The borough’s participation is pending approval from the partnership. Carr said 90 percent of the funding would be covered by the government if the grant is applied for by multiple municipalities.

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