Will County offer dispatch center to new sheriff's building

JOLIET, Ill. (AP) - Will County officials have offered to add a $5 million emergency dispatch center to the sheriff's office it plans to build this year.

The plan would alleviate headaches for the county as it struggles to meet a state-required 2017 deadline to consolidate 9-1-1 services.

The (Tinley Park) Daily Southtown reports (http://trib.in/1ZwgSdG ) that offer was announced at a working session of the Emergency Telephone System Board last week. It was verbally accepted by the sheriff's department and by the village of Romeoville which has its own center.

Officials hope they can meet the law to reduce dispatch centers to two with an agreement by Eastern Will County Communications to join. But telephone service board administrator Steve Figved says operators there hoped a consolidated center would be farther east.

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Information from: Southtown Star, http://southtownstar.chicagotribune.com/