Nez Perce County will reimburse itself $83,388 for costs related to Enhanced 911 before putting the rest of the money from a $1 telephone service charge into a pot with the city of Lewiston.
Most of the money was spent out of the county's general fund to develop rural addressing, Commissioner Ron Wittman said at Monday's commission meeting.
That is an allowable expense under the state's Emergency Communications Act, Deputy Prosecutor Jack R. Little said.
With that, the three commissioners repealed two ordinances and amended a third, recreating a pool of money a new joint powers board can draw on to maintain the countywide system.
The county will put $35,232 into the fund. The city of Lewiston a week ago had $321,117 in reserves after paying for equipment and other E-911 expenses.
The city was due to get another payment of $20,344 this week from $1 line charges received since Jan. 1, and that also will go into the joint fund, Clerk-Auditor Patty O. Weeks said.
Residents countywide approved the $1 line charge in 1998. It was extended to cellular phones in August.
In 2001, the city decided to separate itself and has been getting 90 percent of the line charge money, based on population.
Last month, both the city and county agreed to create a joint board of three people from each, plus one citizen at large. That group will have its first meeting at 1:30 Thursday at the Police Training Center.