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A 2021-22 budget that includes salaries and benefits for 18 full-time dispatchers was approved Tuesday by the Greene County 911 Board of Directors.
Estimates of how much it would cost to fund 16 and 21 full-time dispatchers were also provided by 911 Director Jerry Bird at the request of board members.
Filling open dispatcher positions in the competitive job market was also discussed. The board revised a long-standing policy of not hiring “immediate family members of telecommunicators” to permit hiring relatives as one way of addressing a shortage of qualified candidates…
