Three weeks after approving an ordinance covering dispatch services from the newly formed Lafayette County Emergency Services Board, the Concordia Board of Aldermen has decided that the ordinance was not necessary.

The board voted Monday, Oct. 6 to repeal the measure, considering it redundant. City administrator Dale Klussman says the county board has instead sent a letter of intent, affirming their position to handle all emergency calls from Concordia.

Klussman says the letter of intent can function without a corresponding ordinance.

The new Lafayette County Emergency Services board was formed following passage of a half-cent sales tax approved with 65 percent of the vote on April’s ballot measure.