Legislative audit begins

From Scott Ekberg, 911 Liaison, Kansas 911 Coordinating Council - K.S.A. 12-5377 requires a performance audit of the Kansas 911 systems at least once every three years.  The audit is being conducted by Stone Carlie & Company, a certified public accounting firm under contract with the Legislative Division of Post Audit, in cooperation with the Kansas 911 Coordinating Council.

Stone Carlie is now ready to begin work on the audit.  During the week of October 14, all PSAPs will receive a survey from the auditors.  Survey will be due back to the auditors by October 31. 

If you have questions or need additional information about the audit, please feel free to contact either Walt Way with the Kansas 911 Coordinating Council (913-826-1010) or Scott Frank with Legislative Post Audit (785-296-3792).  Walt and Scott can also be reached by e-mail at wway@jocogov.org or scott.frank@lpa.ks.gov.  Your cooperation is sincerely appreciated.

Tentative schedule posted

A tentative schedule for the Fall Conference has been posted at http://www.ksapco.org/Fall_Conference.html.  The schedule is still being finalized, so check back soon for the latest updates.

Executive Summary posted

The Executive Summary of the September 6 911 Coordinating Council meeting has been posted on the front page at www.ksapco.org.

Service provider bankruptcys

From Scott Ekberg, 911 Coordinating Council Liaison:  Recently a PSAP was notified of a bankruptcy filing by a service provider.  This brought up the question of how bankruptcy filings and claims for unpaid 911 fee funds would be handled.  The LCPA has stated that on any such filings, where the unpaid fees were a significant amount, the LCPA would file the proof of claim in an attempt to recover these unpaid 911 fees.  The LCPA would disburse any recovered monies to the affected PSAPs.  This will alleviate the individual PSAPs from having to file proof of claims.  If you have any comments or concerns, please contact Scott Ekberg, 911 Liaison at 785-861-3098 or by email at scott.ekberg@us.army.mil.

This information will also be posted on the 911 Coordinating Council’s website:  http://www.kansas911.org

Scott A. Ekberg                      

9-1-1 Liaison                

        

Office of Emergency Communications

National Guard Armory

9751 B-29 Way

Great Bend, KS  67530

(785) 861-3098 (Office)

(785) 438-8440 (Cell)

(620) 793-6891 (Fax)

GIS Training to be held

From 911 Coordinating Council Liaison Scott Ekberg:  Through a partnership between Manhattan Area Technical College Continuing Education Program, the State of Kansas and AOS we are happy to announce two GIS courses to be provided on November 12th & 13th (“Making Maps with GIS”) and the 14th & 15th (“Working with Data in GIS”)  Both classes are designed for beginners but hold a lot of great information for those who are new to ArcGIS Desktop (10.0 or 10.1).  This course has been designed by a local GIS professional right here in the state of Kansas for GIS professionals in Kansas.  You will find the flyer attached to this email that provides descriptions and details on where to register for the courses.  Please let me know if you have any questions and pass along to others who you find might be interested!  Thanks!

Jessica P Frye |GIS Design Architect

Alexander Open Systems  (AOS)

 12980 Foster Street, Suite 300 | Overland Park, KS 66213

 jessica.frye@aos5.com"

 Office:  913-307-2300 | Cellular:  785-231-4355

Conference Pages up and running

The Conference and Vendor pages for the Fall Conference are back up and running!  If you are paying conference or vendor fees on-line, and do not have a Paypal account (or do not want to use Paypal), click the link "Do Not Have Paypal Account" on the checkout page.  This link will take you to the option of using standard credit cards (Mastercard, VISA, etc).  Let us know if you have any problems.

911 Coordinating Council Meetings

The following 911 Coordinating Council Committee and Subcommittee Meetings are coming up.  Refer to the Calendar of Events at ksapco.org for updates.

Sept. 6^th – Coordinating Council (1100) & Sub-Committee(1000)  meetings at the SC Regional 911 Backup Center – 10:00 – 13:00

Sept. 13^th – Technical Sub-Committee at the Landon State Office Building, Room 851B, Topeka – 10:30 – 13:00

October 21^st – Coordinating Council(1300) & Sub-Committee(1100) meetings in conjunction with Fall APCO Conference in Topeka.