Editorial Calls for Consolidation

An editorial in the Canton Repository (Ohio) newspaper calls for Stark County officials to consolidate public safety dispatching within the county and to fund the project through a 0.25 percent sales tax increase. The county now has four PSAPs, “which builds delays into the process no matter how good the middlemen are at what they do,” the newspaper says. The editorial says that city, township and county officials agree on the need to merge the centers, but funding is now the issue. Read the complete editorial here.