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Fort Wayne using tax windfall to buy radio system

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Fort Wayne plans to use part of a windfall it received from a state accounting error to help build a new emergency radio system.

The Journal Gazette reports the Fort Wayne City Council this week unanimously approved using $4.2 million in local option income tax revenue to pay for half of a new radio system for emergency responders. Allen County will pay for the other half. The city and county each will buy their own radios.

The city council approved a plan to finance $5.6 million for 1,600 new emergency radios over seven years. That money will come out of the city budget.

he state announced in April that it owed $206 million in local option income tax revenue to local governments due to a programming error.

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