1A SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 2013 | YOUR COMMUNITY NEWSPAPER SINCE 1874 | $1.00 Lake City Reporter LAKECITYREPORTER.COM Homecoming 6-year-old genius SUNDAY EDITION Queen crowned finds tests ‘easy in Fort White. 5A peasy as pie.’ 6A ‘MIXED MESSAGES’ to handle city fire department dispatch Combined Communications Center and Public Safety Building, the same location County: Lake City officials services Oct. 1 despite “mixed messages” respond automatically to city fire emer- from which the city currently dispatches say one thing about unified from city officials. gencies with county resources. LCPD officers. However, City Manager Wendell On June 28, County Manager Dale The county’s understanding was that dispatch, staffers, another. Johnson says that the city’s intentions Williams sent a letter to Johnson saying the city would handle its own fire dis- By STEVEN RICHMOND were made clear through documentation the county plans to terminate the interlo- patch services beginning Oct. 1. However,
[email protected] and correspondence throughout the year. cal agreement effective Oct. 1 in response county officials are unclear if that will in As of today, the county and city are to the requests of Johnson and LCFD Fire fact happen. County Safety Manager David Kraus told participants in an interlocal agreement Chief Frank Armijo. “They never officially told us one way county commissioners that the Combined whereby the county will dispatch Lake The city then set in motion plans to Communications Center will still be able City fire protection services through their dispatch city fire services from their own DISPATCH continued on 3A A smokin’ good time Jobless rate on decline Unemployment in county falls to 6.6%; state rate drops too.