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to concede it’s probably a good idea to purchase the equipment now. Herbert Foster wanted to Know if the radio equipment would become “100% county property.” Jones said it would.
SHERIFF John Walker Jenkins noted that Rappahannock was the only one of “about three” counties in Virginia that doesn’t have its own dispatcher, but “there’s no way we can afford a base station of our own now.”
Jones noted that the money was only for the equipment, none of it is for salaries or personnel, to do the “dispatching.” John Walker Jenkins said that three surrounding counties have said they are willing to help out with Rappahannock’s dispatching.
“The finger pointing will be strong wlym we have to buy all that equipment in a few years,” Pete Luke said. “They’ll say why didn’t you do something ir 1975, when it would only have cost $250.”
“The improvement in communication is certainly needed,” Jennings Hobson said. “Two hundred dollars is not much for $5,000 of equipment that will belong to the county permanently.”
H.B. Wood disagreed. “If we can keep the state police radios and we’ve got three counties willing to help us, I think we should keep them.”
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