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Culpeper Fire Department, owners of that county's communications equipment, announced that free dispatch provided to Amissville, Washington, Flint Hill, Sperryville and Castleton would cease as of July 1, 1981.
The action came as the result of a system overloaded by the average 2.1 calls per day from Rappahannock, according to the Culpeper fire department.
The cut-off deadline was extended as long as Rappahannock explored means of setting up and staffing its own dispatch system. As a first solution, county sheriff W.A. Buntin asked the state compensation board last year for funds to man a local dispatch system but was turned down on the grounds that it wasn’t economically feasible to provide four dispatchers for three deputies.
(The compensation board is responsible for paying salaries of dispatchers for sheriffs departments. These dispatchers may also handle fire and rescue calls but that is of secondary importance as far as the compensation board is concerned and accordingly, dispatch staffing requests are evaluated on basis of law enforcement needs only. Rappahannock’s sheriff’s department currently receives free dispatch service from Culpeper’s sheriff's department. In addition to seeking funds from the compensation board, Rappahannock’s fire and rescue association previously asked Culpeper to consider maintaining a joint d'^patch under a contractual arrangement with the county paying a pro-rated share of costs. The proposal was rejected out-of-hand by the Culpeper Fire Department. Now. however. Culpeper’s board of supervisors, sympathetic from the outset to Rappahannock’s plight, has indicated it will provide county-owned com
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