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Erie County Offers to Study Centralizing 9‑1‑1 Calls; Town Board Agrees to Gather More Information
Summary
Erie County policy director Jason Hurley asked the Grand Island Town Board to create a committee to study whether the town should close its PSAP and have police/fire/EMS calls handled centrally by Erie County; board members voiced cost and operational concerns and agreed to table formal action while staff gather data.
Jason Hurley, policy director for the Erie County executive, told the Grand Island Town Board the county is willing to form a work group with town officials to study whether Grand Island should close its public safety answering point (PSAP) and route emergency calls to Erie County’s central dispatch. Hurley said the study would be nonbinding and would produce a “blueprint” describing steps, costs and issues for supervisors, police, fire and emergency medical stakeholders to consider.
Hurley said…
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