Montana Official Says Government Austerity Threatens Prospects for Public-Safety Network

摘要

Montana's chief information officer, Dick Clark, warned that in this era of government cutbacks, nthere’s no easy path to a nationwide public safety network in large states with small npopulations, like his. "The state of Montana lives on grants," Clark said at the National nAssociation of State Chief Information Officers’ midyear meeting. "The question is are those ngrants going to go away?" Programs built on matching grants "kill us" because states like nMontana can’t provide the match, he said. "It doesn’t matter how much money the feds want nto throw at us. If we can’t match it, it does us no good."