Tuesday, December 23, 2014
YOUNGSTOWN
Mahoning County Sheriff Jerry Greene will now oversee the county’s 911 center and the appointment of its emergency dispatchers.
“We think public safety, which would be the sheriff’s department, would be a better fit to run a call-dispatch center,” explained Commissioner Carol Rimedio-Righetti at the panel’s Tuesday meeting.
“He would know more than we, as commissioners, about dispatching” emergency calls, she said of the sheriff, adding that the 13 dispatchers’ jobs will be secure in the transition.
Although the commissioners are switching oversight of dispatching operations from themselves to the sheriff, effective Sunday, Righetti said the commissioners and their 911 director, Maggi McGee, will remain in charge of the center’s electronic equipment.
In other action, the commissioners appointed Richard E. Edwards, a former Austintown trustee, and John A. Boccieri, a former congressman, to the Western Reserve Port Authority for four-year terms beginning Jan. 1.
Read more about the matters in Wednesday's Vindicator or on Vindy.com.