911 Public Safety Answering Point talks continue
Travis Bateman
Farmer Staff Writer
Meetings continued over March 2nd and March 3rd with the McKenzie County Sheriff’s Office conducting repeated presentations to the city council of Watford City and the McKenzie County Commission at each governing body’s regularly scheduled meetings held on Monday and Tuesday, respectively.
First Meeting and Presentations
These followed the initial meeting where the topic initially came up during the McKenzie County Joint Powers Board meeting that oversees activities and operations pertaining to the county’s law enforcement center that houses the police, sheriff, highway patrol, state investigators, county communications center, and county corrections facilities. This board is made up of two Watford City council members, two county commissioners, and an at-large citizen member.
The board is unique in that unlike most board or council decisions where a majority dictates the direction a voted outcome concludes, when the JPA was established for the county law enforcement center (LEC) it was structured and written as such in the JPA charter that a “super majority” is required, whereas four of the five sitting members have to be on the same side of any decision made by vote in order for it to pass or fail.
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