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Appendix 1 NO requests for funding will be acknowledged for any items not specified in Section 365.172, Florida Statutes, Emergency communication number "E911"; paragraph (10) (shown below). Section 365.172 (10), Florida Statutes AUTHORIZED EXPENDITURES OF E911 FEE.— (a) For purposes of this section, E911 service includes the functions of database management, call taking, location verification, and call transfer. Department of Health certification, recertification, and training costs for 911 public safety telecommunications, including dispatching, are functions of 911 services. (b) All costs directly attributable to the establishment or provision of E911 service and contracting for E911 services are eligible for expenditure of moneys derived from imposition of the fee authorized by subsections (8) and (9). These costs include the acquisition, implementation, and maintenance of Public Safety Answering Point (PSAP) equipment and E911 service features, as defined in the providers' published schedules or the acquisition, installation, and maintenance of other E911 equipment, including circuits; call answering equipment; call transfer equipment; ANI or ALI controllers; ANI or ALI displays; station instruments; E911 telecommunications systems; visual call information and storage devices; recording equipment; telephone devices and other equipment for the hearing impaired used in the E911 system; PSAP backup power systems; consoles; automatic call distributors, and interfaces, including hardware and software, for computer-aided dispatch (CAD) systems; integrated CAD systems for that portion of the systems used for E911 call taking; GIS system and software equipment and information displays; network clocks; salary and associated expenses for E911 call takers for that portion of their time spent taking and transferring E911 calls, salary, and associated expenses for a county to employ a full-time equivalent E911 coordinator position and a full-time equivalent mapping or geographical data position, and technical system maintenance, database, and administration personnel for the portion of their time spent administrating the E911 system; emergency medical, fire, and law enforcement prearrival instruction software; charts and training costs; training costs for PSAP call takers, supervisors, and managers in the proper methods and techniques used in taking and transferring E911 calls, costs to train and educate PSAP employees regarding E911 service or E911 equipment, including fees collected by the Department of Health for the certification and recertification of 911 public safety Telecommunicator's as required under s. 401.465; and expenses required to develop and maintain all information, including ALI and ANI databases and other information source repositories, necessary to properly inform call takers as to location address, type of emergency, and other information directly relevant to the E911 call - taking and transferring function. Moneys derived from the fee may also be used for next - generation E911 network services, next -generation E911 database services, next -generation E911 equipment, and wireless E911 routing systems. (c) The moneys should not be used to pay for any item not listed in this subsection, including, but not limited to, any or operational costs for emergency responses. Even any Application for E911 State Grant Program , revised 01/2018 Page 17 W Form 3A, incorporated by reference in Fla. Admin. Code R. 60FF1-5.003 E911 State Grant 52