The Lauderdale County Board of Supervisors on Monday approved $131,800 in computer-aided dispatch upgrades to the county’s E911 system.

According to Jared Stanley, the county’s E911 director, the county’s $1 million CAD upgrade cannot be completed without these upgrades.

These include Superion’s ONE Solution Quartermaster for $2,500; ONE Solution State Livescan Interface for $11,500; ONE Solution Public Safety & Justice Data Conversion for $68,200; and ONE Solution Public Safety & Justice Data Conversion for $49,600.

Stanley said the upgrades will streamline the dispatch process by consolidating information from multiple databases into one.

“It is in my opinion… a necessary need that we have this in order to move forward,” Stanley told the board.

Board President and District 2 Supervisor Wayman Newell said it was important to keep the E911 system up to date.

“They don’t need it until they need it,” he said.

These upgrades are not part of the E911 system’s public safety answering point, or PSAP,  which if approved by the board will be replaced later this year.

Because the vendor that services the PSAP has been “bought out,” updates and maintenance for the current PSAP will no longer be available, Stanley told the board last week.

“If we can get the board of supervisors to approve this by September, we’ll start the upgrade in September at the beginning of the fiscal year,” Stanley said. “It’s not a long, drawn-out process like the CAD system.”

The total cost for the PSAP upgrade is $460,773.50 and can be financed over a five-year period.

District 1 Supervisor Jonathan Wells said “it’s going to be done.”

“We’re going to purchase the software no matter how it gets done, whether it’s Lauderdale County by itself or the city provides funding,” he said. “I’m optimistically hoping that the city will help purchase that.”

In other action, the board approved:

• The hiring of Andrew Napp as Agri-Center director at a salary of $43,000 per year.

• The transfer of $40,572.78 from Fund 108 MS Election Support Fund to the General Fund 001 for voting machines.

• Transfer of $282,600 from Fund 138-Economic Industrial and Recreational Fund to Fund 620-Economic Development District.

• Acceptance of the only bid of $36,500 for two half-ton pickup trucks from Gray Daniels.

• Acceptance of the only bid of $109,980 from TraxPlus for one tandem axle water tank truck.