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Commissioners. Prior to this date, there had been no organized system of 9-1-1 anywhere in the county. This document was prepared pursuant to the requirements specified in the Ohio Revised Code (ORC). It provided the County's Board of County Commissioners, municipal corporations and boards of township trustees with written description of the proposed Countywide 9-1-1 System, the proposed Public Safety Answering Point (PSAP) territories, the location of the PSAPs, the System's features and operations, and the initial and recurring costs. The Ohio Bell Telephone Company estimated that the 9-1-1 System could be implemented county -wide 14-18 months after the plan was approved making it feasible that 9-1-1 services would be available to individuals in the County during the last quarter of 1987. A one-time cost of installing the 9-1-1 Network and establishing the Data Management System's database was estimated to be $3,650,218. The State of Ohio paid these costs via a tax credit to Ohio Bell. The estimated annual cost of maintaining the 9-1-1 Network and Data Management System's database was $938,856. All telephone subscribers in the county would equally contribute to this ongoing monthly cost at a rate of 12 cents per line. Costs for each Public Safety Answering Point (PSAP) were primarily related to the equipment installed and maintained at the Primary, Secondary and Default PSAPs. It was determined the cost savings derived from leasing equipment from Ohio Bell as opposed to purchasing and maintaining equipment from another vendor was significant. Initial one-time installation fees were estimated to be $1,256,673 and monthly lease and maintenance fees totaled approximately $59,713. These costs included all Primary, Default and Secondary PSAPs and included the following functions and services: selective routing, default routing, automatic number identification (ANI), call transfer, call hold, call return, forced disconnect, alternate routing, automatic location identification (ALI), hard copy with and without address. This plan was adopted and executed on March 24, 1986. Cuyahoga County's 9-1-1 system went live in November 1987. As cell phone service proliferated during the early 1990s, CECOMS became the Primary Safety Answering Point for all wireless 9-1-1 calls made in the County. CECOMS staff would establish the location of the caller and then route the call to the appropriate PSAP for dispatch. In addition, CECOMS became a regional information gathering and deciphering point for AMBER Alerts, mutual aid coordination, severe weather alerts and telephone support for county PSAPs. In 2012, Cuyahoga County contracted with Attevo to complete a detailed assessment of the 48 PSAPs that existed at that time. The purpose of the study was to determine where overlaps between PSAPs existed and to develop a plan for efficiencies including PSAP consolidations. Overall, the study concluded that Cuyahoga County should work to significantly reduce the number of PSAPs countywide. Cuyahoga County made the reduction of PSAPs a priority while furthering the County's mission for regional collaboration in 2011. In order to support these collaborations, Cuyahoga County invested over 15 million dollars to provide state of the art Next Generation 9-1-1 (NG9-1-1) equipment with built- in redundancies such as dual connections to both the Cleveland and Columbus host. 16