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Commissioner Bird asked if Commissioner Lyons has any reason <br />to believe that many of the other agencies will have an objection <br />to the proposal for central dispatch. <br />Commissioner Lyons believed there might be some objections, <br />but he felt we must look at the overall emergency situation in <br />the county; we have the responsibility and we must look to the• <br />long term solution of our problem. He believed that sooner or <br />Tater we will end up with paid services whether we like it or <br />not, and we should position ourselves so that at least the <br />dispatching problem has been solved. He planned to get with the <br />volunteer ambulance squads and see if there are some valid <br />objections, but doubted we would change our plan. <br />Chairman Scurlock noted that the system in Manatee County is <br />flexible enough so that if some do not participate, it still will <br />work, and he believed eventually they will come around when they <br />see how good the system is. <br />Commissioner Bird expressed his belief that the system <br />proposed is logical. He asked what would happen in the case of a <br />traffic accident between 1-95 and Fellsmere - how it is handled <br />presently and how it would be handled under the proposed central <br />61 <br />system. <br />The Sheriff explained under the current dispatch scenario <br />how the call would come at a console in the Sheriff's Department <br />and then be patched through to the various agencies. Under the <br />new system it would come in under a rolling telephone number and <br />if one console was busy, another would pick it up. It then would <br />be put on a computer and when the operator hit one button, it <br />would automatically come up on both screens and be dispatched <br />simultaneously to the necessary emergency units. <br />Commissioner Bird asked if this will help eliminate the <br />possibility of human error where someone gets excited and fails <br />to call everyone, and the Sheriff felt you never can totally <br />eliminate that, but he believed it does cut down on that <br />39 <br />BOOK 65 FnUE.466 <br />