posted on July 27, 2012 07:46
Racine County Joint Dispatch Services
Type of Jurisdictions Involved
Specific Jurisdictions Involved
- Racine County;
- City of Caledonia;
- Village of Sturtevant;
- Village of Mt. Pleasant;
- Village of Wind Point;
- Village of North Bay;
- Village of Elmwood Park
Type of Agreement
Consolidation of Services
Implementation and Incubation
- 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
Factors Involved
- 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
Benefits
- Elimination of the need to transfer emergency calls between agencies, thus improving emergency response
- Efficiency, coordinated response
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