Additions in Barnes Co dispatch

Valley City (CSi) Barnes County is in the process of hiring dispatchers, and will hire a 9-1-1 Coordinator.

The estimated starting salary of the coordinator is around $68, 000 dollars annually.

The current 9-1-1 Coordinator Kim Franklin is slated take a 35-hundred dollar salary reduction from her base salary as the Barnes County Emergency Manager.

The commissioners unanimously approved giving all dispatchers a $1 per hour raise and an additional $1 per hour raise for two new dispatchers, plus another $1 per hour in differential pay for dispatchers who work nights and weekend shifts.