According to Wednesday’s Chester News & Reporter article, at the 10 am Tuesday’s special called council meeting, with the only topic listed being a ‘personnel matter’ for executive session, county council emerged from that session and held a vote to move 911 offices to Ella Street. Why was the executive session being described to the public as a ‘personnel matter’ when that would not appear to be the case during the vote?
Oh wait- perhaps they were discussing ‘moving personnel’ to a new/old location or even who was in ‘control’ of 911 personnel?
Also mentioned in the paper, the supervisor alone decided 911 offices needed to move and nearly ‘pulled the trigger’ sometime last year, Sheriff Alex Underwood’s first year as the newly elected sheriff, stating ‘the best thing for it [911] is to stand on its own.’ He also stated 911 operated more efficiently before moving to its current location on Dawson Drive. Assuming the supervisor provided no documentation or statistics to back up his statements about the efficiency of 911 offices and the supervisor casting the deciding vote on the controversial issue, does this whole situation smell a little (lot?) strange. Regardless whether it cost 20 or 300 thousand or what years budget it is coming out of. With leaders historically claiming The Gateway won’t cost taxpayers anything (perhaps they were talking about the sign?), will this move really cost 20k or will it just ‘look’ like it?
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