Bergen mulls offering free dispatching?
–Will This News Signal (no pun intended) The Demise of Northwest Bergen Central Dispatch?
–Free? Not Free to the Tax Payers
Tuesday, December 25, 2012
BY JOHN C. ENSSLIN
STAFF WRITER
The Record
Bergen County officials want to make an offer they believe municipal officials would find tough to turn down — use of the county’s 911 dispatch center in Mahwah at no additional charge.
The proposal, which is still in the discussion stage, could dramatically alter the economics that the county’s 70 municipalities have weighed in deciding whether to keep their own police and fire dispatchers, share the cost and service with neighboring towns or sign up with the county.
Since opening the $12.4 million Public Safety Operation Center in 2010, the county has had a difficult time convincing municipal officials that it would be more cost-effective for them to pay an annual fee to use the service.
Twenty towns have signed up to have their 911 calls routed through the center, including 11 towns for which the county also dispatches local police officers, firefighters and ambulances.
The county currently generates about $1 million in revenue annually from the towns that contract for that service, County Administrator Ed Trawinski said.
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What’s the savings if central dispatch is shut and bc takes over?
zipo, they just would like ridgewoods money to pay for that building. what do you think. in the end it,s all about the buck. what is next . are they going to send in county police.
2011 salaries for employees of central dispatch totaled almost $800K as per datauniverse.com
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