FARMINGTON – Meeting via a teleconference call, county commissioners and other officials discussed how the novel coronavirus would impact county operations moving forward and approved a contingency plan for the Franklin County Regional Communications Center.

Franklin County Emergency Management Agency Director Tim Hardy said that dispatchers at the center had come together to develop a continuity of operations plan. If it was to be deemed necessary that dispatchers shelter in place, Hardy said, teams of four dispatchers would work for two week rotations. Hardy noted that commissioners… READ MORE