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After months of negotiations and years of discussion, the Daviess County commissioners joined with the city of Washington to combine the county and city dispatch centers into a single operation. The final approval was given by the commissioners at their meeting Tuesday morning.
“This has been a long journey,” said Daviess County Commissioner Nathan Gabhart. “I started working on this in 2015. There are a lot of other people who have been involved in talks for even longer.”
Because the city represents two-thirds of the population involved in the dispatch, the county will carry two-thirds of the funding with the city paying for one-third…