Director Updates Council on Comm Center

“It was a very good year,” says Cheyenne County Emergency Communications Center Director Heidi Gillespie.

Gillespie recently presented her report on the communication center’s fiscal year. To say it is a very good year is commending her staff as much as is possible, according to Gillespie. Staffing is a primary part of the communication center. Dispatchers take calls varying from information requests to a person in distress. Gillespie said the communication center averages 110 calls per day. Of that number, 45 to 50 percent result in calls for service by one of the response agencies....