NYC 911 Improvement Plan Is $1 Billion Over Budget, Liu Says
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New York City’s attempt to improve its 911 emergency-communications system has cost $1 billion more than budgeted, for a total expense of $2.3 billion, Comptroller John Liu said.
The project, created in 2004 to consolidate communications among the fire and police departments and emergency medical services, was supposed to create two call centers by 2008. They won’t be finished until 2015, the audit reported. The city hired Hewlett Packard Co. as project manager in 2005; Northrop Grumman Corp. came in to develop the second center in January 2011.