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the service-related problems facing the board.
The most pressing matter to be discussed was the county’s assumption of responsibility for providing dispatch service for fire and rescue calls as Culpeper moves towards termination of that service for this area.
Solutions discussed for the dispatch problem depend on the Rappahannock Sheriffs Department supplying the space and at least part of the manpower for receiving and relaying calls.
Sheriff W. A. Buntin told the supervisors that the only advantage to his office of assuming coordination of the rescue vehicles would be to provide a county service. “The sheriff s dispatch, along with the state police, would still be from Culpeper," he said.
The Sheriff said that, although he would do anything possible to help solve the county’s problem, he did not think that he could commit his department to the extra manpower it would take to receive and relay dispatch calls around the clock.
As a partial solution, the Sheriff said that he had talked to the Rappahannock County jailer, John Mannion, and that there was a room available in the jail as well as access to bathroom facilities.
This would be at some inconvenience to Mannion. Butin said, but the jailer was
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