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Do IT this week: Layering
County might have the money to begin
By Nancy Molnar
Special to the Beacon Journal
Published on Saturday, Nov 14, 2009
CANTON: Centralized emergency dispatching might be established in Stark County despite last week's electoral defeat of a sales tax intended to fund it.
Existing revenue might be enough to start the project, county commissioners were told Tuesday.
Money would come from an existing property tax for 911 service, taxes on cell phones and half the revenue from a 0.5 percent sales tax commissioners imposed in December. The tax will be collected through March.
Randy Gonzalez, chairman of the governance board of the Stark Council of Governments, said the body will meet Thursday to discuss prospects for proceeding with the plan to make dispatching operations in Canton and at the Sheriff's Office the core of a county system.
Other services might migrate to the two main sites if the work can be done more economically, Gonzalez said.
Consolidating operations would mean that 911 calls would be received by a dispatcher who can send police, fire or medical workers. At present, many 911 calls must be forwarded to local dispatchers.
In other action Tuesday, commissioners approved a contract covering about 80 employees at the Sheriff's Office.
The one-year contract, retroactive to July 1, includes no raises. The Fraternal Order of Police represents the workers, who are corrections officers, mechanics, dispatchers and clerks.
CANTON: Centralized emergency dispatching might be established in Stark County despite last week's electoral defeat of a sales tax intended to fund it.
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