Mission Critical Partners modeled an option to bill a single‑agency city by isolating police call data and extrapolating per‑call costs from 2025 data; staff warned ECDC would lack year‑one local data and scheduled a subcommittee meeting for Oct. 30 to discuss.

The packet said the current ECDC standard (80% of priority‑1 calls dispatched within 90 seconds) dates to 2013; the Fire Chiefs Operations Committee requested adopting NFPA 1225's recommendation to dispatch 90% of priority‑1 incidents within 60 seconds.

The East Central Dispatch Center board was asked on Oct. 28, 2026 to consider shifting FY27 funds from a non‑emergency AI call‑triage project to cover a reduced Intterra–Central Square interface fee after Motorola notified staff that the discounted interface cost was part of a separate STL County radio agreement.