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solve the dispatch problem. But, he said, what Culpeper came back with was 120 days for developing alternatives, action that will extend the old deadline only to the end of July.
"Now we must work with the supervisors to see what you’re willing to do,” Huff continued. He reported that the county’s fire and rescue association had unanimously passed a resolution “to pursue every effort possible to maintain a dispatch center of our own.”
A county dispatch center will cost at least $66,000 and that doesn’t include the land, according to Luke.
“The whole chain of emergency services is only as strong as its weakest link,” Rosson responded, maintaining that the current shared arrangement between Culpeper and Rappahannock has “several weak links.” Should fires occur simultaneously in Rappahannock and Culpeper with police calls at the same time, radio transmissions wout'j be too much to keep up with, he said.
Supervisor H. B. Wood proposed finding a dispatcher with the training to handle the volume in calls and instituting radio discipline to cut down on unnecessary talking over the wires.
Luke added that ticklish communications between planes in a bomber squadron is handled without any problem.
"Right. But you pay those people. You don’t pay volunteers,” Rosson countered.
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