Orange County officials have a solid track record of repurposing old buildings for county office space. The county’s primary administration office—the Gordon Building on Main Street—once was the Leggett department store. The nearby building services office was the Main Street Dollar General. The county also has adaptively reused the former library building on Belleview Avenue (for public works) and the historic clerk’s office next to the courthouse (economic development and tourism).
But for the first time since the Sedwick Building in the mid-1990s, Orange County is constructing a purpose-built facility. Make that multi-purpose…
Concerns over a new license plate camera program being instituted by city police – as well as long-simmering tensions between members of the City Council and the administration over communication issues – led to some pointed, and heated, exchanges in Council Chambers at City Hall on Monday night.
The installation of the new automated license plate reading, or ALPR, cameras – which police say will be used as part of a 60-day pilot program – was first revealed early last week through a report from WJAR…
MIDLAND, Mich. (WJRT) – One by one, mile by mile a Midland County dispatcher ran every single road in the city of Midland.
Matt Frazier used an app to track his progress running all 879 roads in the city.
“About three years ago, a friend turned me on to a site called City Strides. It helps you keep track of all the streets that you run, so that kind of gave me a point to doing the training I was doing anyway,” he said.
The feat took Frazier about three years on and off, but along the way he fueled his mission with the hope to help others…
WINCHESTER — In an effort alleviate some of the strain on Frederick County’s 911 dispatchers, the county’s Public Safety Committee on Thursday unanimously recommended that $138,079 be used to hire four new positions in the Public Safety Communications Department — three emergency communications officers and one shift supervisor.
The full-time positions would be filled for the remainder of the fiscal year.
The department currently has 10 full-time dispatchers, one part-time dispatcher and two shift supervisors, putting it at critical staffing minimums, according to Public Safety Communications Director Tamara Perez. She said the department needs 14 full-time dispatchers, one part-time dispatcher and three shift supervisors to be considered fully staffed…
RICHMOND HEIGHTS, Ohio — Marla Walker offers her thanks to Richmond Heights safety personnel who helped save the life of her son, Javon, on crutches, during Tuesday’s City Council meeting. (Photo Courtesy of Richmond Height Police Chief Thomas Wetzel)
Walker and his mother, Marla Walker, with their friends and family in the audience, thanked the safety workers for their efforts.
In order to give people a sense of the situation, Wetzel played for those in attendance the 911 call. He and Neumann praised Heights Hillcrest Communications Center dispatcher Amber Kirby for her work in advising those who were with Walker at the accident scene where to apply pressure and of measures to take to keep Walker alert until police and paramedics arrived…
With the impending relocation of the Pulaski County 911 Dispatch Center to the Hal Rogers Fire Training Center property coming closer, county officials are turning their attention to the coroner’s office which shares with 911 the current building off the East Ky. 194 bypass.
Last December, Judge-Executive Steve Kelley announced plans to take public safety and emergency management to the next level with several equipment upgrades and even a new location. With the move comes the installation of upgraded equipment for the 911 Center, including a new CAD (computer-aided dispatch) system, two-way radio consoles and a phone system. The new facility will also allow more space for the county’s new emergency operations center (EOC) and perhaps future growth as well…
Kelley has also asserted that the move would reduce the county’s debt service, and during Tuesday’s Fiscal Court meeting, he reiterated a desire to sell the current facility as soon as possible.
“Hopefully next month, we’ll be able to move our 911 call center and our EOC over to the new location,” Judge Kelley told magistrates. “Once we do that, we’ll start trying to find an exit strategy to liquidate the current building we have…which also houses our coroner’s office.”
The judge went on to say that the county will be looking for a place where Coroner Clyde Strunk can set up a new office.
“One of the options we have would be to build a small metal building that would meet his specifications for an office,” Judge Kelley added, asking the court for permission to advertise an RFP (Request For Proposals) for such a structure.
Kelley’s recommendation was approved unanimously on a motion from District 1 Magistrate Jason Turpen with a second from District 5 Magistrate Mike Strunk. Upon approval, the judge expected the RFP to be available in the coming week.
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Marla Walker offers her thanks to Richmond Heights safety personnel who helped save the life of her son, Javon, on crutches, during Tuesday’s City Council meeting. (Photo Courtesy of Richmond Height Police Chief Thomas Wetzel)
