Alfalfa County E-911 dispatch department and jailers to cross-train by year's end

Alfalfa County commissioners Garret Johnson, Mike Roach and Nate Ross convened in a short executive session during their meeting on Monday. The trio did so to discuss the positions and duties of the E-911 director/supervisor. County clerk Laneta Schwerdtfeger joined the commissioners, and then a little later, E-911 director Sarah Wagner and sheriff Gary Mast joined.

Once the meeting returned to an open session, the commissioners voted to have workers in the dispatch department cross-train with the jailers by the end of the year.

After that, they approved an $8,000 transfer of appropriations fr...