• Home
  • News
    • Business
    • Crime / Courts
    • Health / Medicine
    • Legislature
    • Politics / Govt
  • Sports
    • High School Sports
    • The Bill Pollock Show
  • Contact Us
    • Reporters
  • Affiliates
    • Affiliate Support

Missourinet

Your source for Missouri News and Sports

You are here: Home / Business / Lt. Governor Parson praises mid-Missouri emergency communications center

Lt. Governor Parson praises mid-Missouri emergency communications center

May 29, 2018 By Brian Hauswirth

The $21 million Boone County Emergency Communications Center in fast-growing Columbia is being praised by Lieutenant Governor Mike Parson.

Missouri Lt. Governor Mike Parson tours the Boone County Emergency Communications Center on May 22, 2018 (Brian Hauswirth photo)

The Bolivar Republican toured the center last week, saying the facility is important for the safety of officers.

“I think for the future to have these type of centers in our communities anymore, state-of-the-art, to be able to provide this to the general public out there, but also to provide it for our emergency personnel for their safety is huge that we do this,” Parson says.

Boone County voters approved a 3/8 percent sales tax in 2013 to fund the project, and the 28,000 square feet facility was dedicated in September 2016.

Officials tell Parson that before it was built, they had to buy parts on eBay.

Parson tells Missourinet you can’t “cut the edges” when it comes to emergency responses.

“Because sooner or later there’s going to be a tragedy, there’s going to be an incident that calls for the emergency personnel,” says Parson. “And you want them trained, you want the facilities wherever they can meet the demands of the calls from the public, and it looks like to me there’s some really good foreplanning in this facility.”

Parson notes the Boone County Emergency Communications Center receives about 80,000 911 calls annually.

The facility is designed to withstand 250-mile-per-hour winds, and every power and plumbing system in the building has a backup to the primary system.

The Columbia Chamber of Commerce organized Parson’s visit to the center. Democratic Boone County Presiding Commissioner Dan Atwill joined the Republican for the tour.

Center officials also tell Parson that Columbia’s daytime population is now about 225,000.

Copyright © 2018 · Missourinet

Share this:

  • Facebook
  • Twitter

Filed Under: Business, Crime / Courts, News, Politics / Govt, Weather

Subscribe to our daily newsletter


Tweets by Missourinet

Sports

Tilmon becoming a force in his senior season at Mizzou (PODCAST)

Thanks for … [Read More...]

Tigers build on fast start in win over South Carolina

Behind a … [Read More...]

In the old days, Mahomes would have been back out there against the Browns (PODCAST)

Thanks for … [Read More...]

New U.S. women’s soccer captain Sauerbrunn says she got her toughness from her older brothers

Becky … [Read More...]

State reps want St. Louis Cardinals to erect a slavery monument near Busch Stadium

St. … [Read More...]

More Sports

Tweets by missourisports

Archives

Opinion/Editorials

TwitterFacebook

Copyright © 2021 · Learfield News & Ag, LLC