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Every system is designed for a specific locality. You can’t just buy what you need off the shelves.” The CenTel representative said the board would have to decide how many positions would be staffed at the answering point, how many exchanges would be coming in to that point, and whether printers would be supplied to the individual companies so that the informal, tion from the dispatcher’s computer screen could be transmitted to the volunteers BEFORE the fir* **mm*mm*mmm**m*mm*m answer a call. , Mr. Hammond, reported iliat Albemarle County and the City of Charlottesville are working on setting ; up an enhanced 911 but that no system has actually been installed yet in this area. “I anticipate everyone' !** going eventually to an enhanced system,” he added. ; ir.

To pay for its “E911,” Albemarle is figuring on a ’ telephone tariff of about 55 cents a month for the first ’ two years to cover start-up costs. “After the first two years, it will be cut in half, at least,” Mr. Hammond said. 1 "V

“We have about 6,500 people in Rappahannock > County. That’s just a fraction of what they have iiv^ Charlottesville and Albemarle,” said Supervisor AT* Henry, questioning whether the tariff might have to be far larger with so few people to share the total cost of the system.

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