Last Town Consolidates

One of the last independent public safety comm center in Allegheny County (Penn.) will close and operations folded into the county’s comm center after the Tarentum borough council voted to make the move. The town of 5,000 residents is now spending $317,000 a year to operate the center, at the same time that residents are paying $1 a month to a surcharge fund that goes straight to the county center. No word on what will happen to the borough’s three full-time and several part-time dispatchers after the closure.