{"id":11195,"date":"2015-08-24T08:42:44","date_gmt":"2015-08-24T12:42:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/?p=11195"},"modified":"2015-08-24T08:42:44","modified_gmt":"2015-08-24T12:42:44","slug":"county-to-seek-audit-of-911-fee-payment-by-telcos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/?p=11195","title":{"rendered":"County to seek audit of 911 fee payment by telcos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/ChesterCountyLogo-300x297.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-1168698\" src=\"http:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/ChesterCountyLogo-300x297.jpg\" alt=\"ChesterCountyLogo\" \/><\/a>WEST CHESTER \u2014 The Chester County Board of Commissioners introduced a resolution at this week\u2019s Commissioners\u2019 Sunshine Meeting, that authorizes the law firm of Dilworth Paxson LLP, and the telecommunications auditing firm, Phone Recovery Services LLC to undertake a legal review and forensic audit, to determine if telephone companies providing service in Chester County have failed to bill, collect and remit the proper 9-1-1 charges that help fund Chester County\u2019s 9-1-1 operations.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The resolution, set to be approved at next week\u2019s Commissioners\u2019 Meeting, could lead to a formal legal Complaint against the telephone companies to recover such unbilled, uncollected and unremitted \u00a09-1-1 fees. A preliminary assessment of the telephone operators\u2019 conduct suggests that under-billing may amount to more than $6.5 million annually. The Commissioners are authorizing Dilworth Paxson and Phone Recovery Services to investigate six years\u2019 of potential under-billing, which could total up to $40 million in lost funds.<\/p>\n<p>This move by the Chester County Commissioners is one of a number of actions against telephone service providers being taken by Boards of Commissioners throughout the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n<p>The majority of the under-billing affects medium to large business customers. According to research by Phone Recovery Services, single residential lines are being properly assessed.<\/p>\n<p>Chester County spent a total of $14.1 million to support its 9-1-1 system in 2014, with $7.2 million coming from 9-1-1 fees assessed by the telephone service providers, and $6.9 million coming from the county\u2019s property tax.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WEST CHESTER \u2014 The Chester County Board of Commissioners introduced a resolution at this week\u2019s Commissioners\u2019 Sunshine Meeting, that authorizes the law firm of Dilworth Paxson LLP, and the telecommunications auditing firm, Phone Recovery Services LLC to undertake a legal review and forensic audit, to determine if telephone companies providing service in Chester County have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11194,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[551,4047,20,3025],"class_list":["post-11195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-551","tag-audit","tag-chester-county","tag-fees"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11195\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}