Friday, October 17, 2008

Ketchum looks to protect dispatchers

Seven city dispatch staff leave force

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The Ketchum City Council will consider a resolution on Monday that would ensure that the city's former dispatchers receive all the financial benefits they would have been entitled to had the county not taken over consolidated dispatch services.

Ketchum Police Chief Cory Lyman said the three dispatchers who transferred from Ketchum to the county would be due a total of about $2,500 for "shift differential pay," or working the graveyard shift as Lyman put it, were they still employed by the city.

Lyman said that's the final outstanding issue regarding financial benefits since dispatch duties were consolidated in December. Lyman and Ketchum Fire Chief Mike Elle already worked to get their former employees their allotted compensation for remaining sick leave.

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"We're just tying up the loose ends," Lyman said. "This is the last piece."

Lyman said seven Ketchum dispatchers chose not to make the transfer to consolidated dispatch for various reasons.