Dispatch Services

• Racine County;
• City of Caledonia;
• Village of Sturtevant;
• Village of Mt. Pleasant;
• Village of Wind Point;
• Village of North Bay;
• Village of Elmwood Park

• Joint dispatch had been a contentious issue facing local officials for decades preceding joint service consolidation in September of 2010
• Meetings held in 2009 and 2010 to discuss specific of a potential joint dispatch consolidation
• Modeled after Rock County joint dispatch plan
• Approved by all municipalities involved, after issues of clerical duties and other logistics worked out

• Desire and belief that joint dispatch will improve the delivery of emergency services while reducing the overall cost to area taxpayers
• Hopeful reductions in costs of personnel/staffing and equipment
• Improvements in services include reduction in communication gaps and a more efficiency, coordinated emergency response 
• Joint, consolidated dispatch system seen as solution to aging dispatch systems in smaller communities

• Elimination of the need to transfer emergency calls between agencies, thus improving emergency response
• Efficiency, coordinated response

• Joint dispatch center a county department run by a civilian director
• Operations out of Racine County's Communication Center
• Communications Center governed by Board of representatives from participating municipalities
• Established fee structure for participating municipalities

Related Documents:
Journal Times May 27, 2010 Summary of Consolidation
Exhibit A: Terms and Conditions of Operation
Exhibit B - Terms and Conditions of Couny Hiring of Participating Municipalities Employees
Exhibit C - Dispatchers and Supervisors Currently Employed in Municipal Dispatch Centers
Exhibit D - Agreement Regarding Use by Joint Dispatch of City of Racine Communications Center as Back-Up Facility
Exhibit E - Municipal Payments to Racine County for Dispatch Services
Exhibit F - Agreed Staffing of Joint Dispatch
 
 

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