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The Dunleavy administration’s controversial plan to move Ketchikan’s public safety dispatchers to the Mat-Su is raising concerns about reliable emergency communications for Southeast Alaska’s villages.

The state’s consolidation plan, announced a day after the city approved the deal, would shutter regional and contracted dispatchers in Ketchikan and on the Kenai Peninsula. 

It would leave two regional centers: one in Fairbanks in the north and a new dispatch center in the Alaska State Trooper’s post in Palmer handling all of Southcentral and Southeast…