The Western News | July 25, 2023 7:00 AM
It appears the Troy Dispatch Center is running out of money and personnel to continue offering services for the district.
The center stopped offering services on Monday, July 17, according to a July 19 post on the Troy Area Dispatch Facebook page. Emergency and non-emergency dispatch services for the Troy Area District were transferred to the Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office Dispatch the same day.
The post cites “an ongoing staffing shortage” as the reason for the change. It also said the change would be “for an unknown duration.”
Callers should continue to dial 911 in the event of an emergency and for non-emergency calls, dial 406-293-4112.
Lincoln County Sheriff Darren Short said he had no idea of the future of Troy’s dispatch center, but said his office was handling all the calls due to the emergency status.
“The decision on its future will be up to the commissioners, Troy and the dispatch board,” Short said. “But I’ve told the commissioners before that if we take their calls on a long-term or permanent basis, we will need more staff. Yesterday (July 20), we were pretty swamped, but we are handling it for now.”
Lincoln County Commissioner Jim Hammons said the call center wasn’t staffed in a July 21 phone interview with The Western News and the Troy Dispatch Board has had three resignations with another one pending.
“It’s hard enough to get people to work much less volunteer for a board,” Hammons said. “We’ve got a number of open...
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