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Everman highlights regional dispatch center as cost‑saving model
Summary
City Manager Craig Spencer said Everman now administers Tarrant County Regional Communications, a regional dispatch center that handled more than 94,000 calls in 2023 and uses shared staffing and advisory boards to reduce duplicated costs across participating cities.
City Manager Craig Spencer told a standing‑room town hall that the City of Everman now administers Tarrant County Regional Communications, a regionalized dispatch operation that went live in 2023 and handled more than 94,000 calls last year. He said Everman’s model pools infrastructure and personnel across neighboring jurisdictions and uses advisory boards of participating fire and police chiefs to develop shared policies.
Spencer said regional dispatch reduced duplicated costs by consolidating functions: instead…
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