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Board authorizes move of county 9‑1‑1 dispatch to Stryker Court; state will fund duplicate call‑handling equipment
Summary
Supervisors approved proceeding with relocation of the county's primary public safety answering point to Stryker Court as a short‑term solution while the county pursues a long‑term move to the Danbacker detention center. Cal OES committed to provide replacement call‑handling equipment for the new site.
Tuolumne County supervisors voted to proceed with relocating the county’s 9‑1‑1 dispatch operations to the Stryker Court facility, a short‑term move staff said is needed to address repeated electrical, generator and HVAC failures at the current dispatch center.
Lede: The move — approved unanimously — directs the county administrator to proceed with purchases and upgrades necessary to operate the public safety answering point at Stryker Court while county leaders pursue approval and an eventual relocation to the Danbacker detention center.
Nut graf: County public safety staff said the current communications room, housed in an aging building, had suffered multiple outages and an electrical fire in recent years. Staff outlined a plan that limits structural modifications at Stryker Court but will include electrical upgrades, new network cabling and replacement of aging call‑handling equipment. The California Office of Emergency Services (Cal OES) told the county it will provide funding to duplicate call‑handling…
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