$4.2 Million Worcester Regional Emergency Communication Center Set to Break Ground
Tuesday, June 30, 2015
The communications center, contracted for $4.2 million, will be built at 2 Coppage Drive in Worcester and will house a 911 regional emergency communications center, Worcester's emergency operations center and 911 training facility, and all of the administrative offices for Worcester's emergency communications department and emergency management division staff. Leicester's 911 operations will also be housed there.
The project is being funded by the City of Worcester with help from a Regional Public Safety Answering Point Development Grant worth $1.6 million that was awarded to the city in 2010 by the State 911 Department.
When the facility opens, it will trigger an estimated $318,238 in additional support funding, facilitate multiple system redundancy, and allow space for future expansion when the state requires the city’s 911 center to accept all wireless 911 calls directly in the near future; capacity which the city does not currently have.
The event will be at 4 PM on Tuesday. Mayor Joseph M. Petty, City Council Public Safety Subcommittee Chair Morris A. Bergman, City Manager Edward M. Augustus, Jr., state Sen. Michael O. Moore, state Rep. Kate D. Campanale, Leicester Board of Selectmen Chair Dianna Provencher, and state and local emergency response officials are scheduled to speak.
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