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STRONGSVILLE, Ohio – The metropolis will lease nan Southwest Emergency Dispatch Center connected Pearl Road to Chagrin Valley Dispatch for a full of $1 from Feb. 2 done January 2027.
The one-year lease agreement, which City Council approved Monday nighttime (Jan. 5), will let Chagrin Valley Dispatch, which serves much than 30 Greater Cleveland communities, to run while it builds a new, state-of-the-art dispatch halfway successful Valley View.
Council voted 4-3 successful September to merge nan city’s dispatch halfway – which now serves Strongsville, North Royalton, Brook Park and Middleburg Heights – pinch Chagrin Valley Dispatch.
The merger takes effect Feb. 2, nan aforesaid time nan lease statement begins. Brook Park, Middleburg Heights and North Royalton person signed their ain deals to subordinate Chagrin Valley Dispatch.
Nick DiCicco, Chagrin Valley Dispatch administrator, told cleveland.com Tuesday (Jan. 6) that he will move his agency into nan Southwest dispatch center. Other than that, thing will change, astatine slightest for now.
“It will beryllium nan aforesaid group (dispatchers and supervisors) and will service nan aforesaid cities arsenic it does today,” DiCicco said. “It’s conscionable being managed by Chagrin Valley Dispatch until nan caller installation is ready.”
Chagrin Valley Dispatch will renovate portion of an existing building astatine 7887 Hub Parkway successful Valley View into nan caller dispatch halfway and stock nan building pinch Safeguard Properties, a existent property company.
Chagrin Valley Dispatch, according to its website, began seeking offers from building managers for nan task connected Dec. 19. The halfway will measurement astir 75,000 quadrate feet.
DiCicco said nan caller Valley View halfway is scheduled to unfastened successful November aliases December.
Once nan caller dispatch halfway opens, Chagrin Valley Dispatch will adjacent its different locations successful Bedford, Cleveland Heights, Brecksville and Strongsville.
However, DiCicco said Chagrin Valley Dispatch will support nan Cleveland Heights halfway arsenic a “dark backup” successful lawsuit nan caller Valley View dispatch halfway fails aliases shuts down temporarily.
DiCicco said 24 of 32 dispatchers astatine nan Southwest halfway person accepted jobs astatine nan caller Chagrin Valley Dispatch. All were offered positions.
“Not 1 azygous personification has been aliases will beryllium laid off,” DiCicco said.
Currently, Chagrin Valley Dispatch employs 110 dispatchers and different 20 administrative staffers, DiCicco said.
Under nan lease statement that assembly approved Monday, nan metropolis will let Chagrin Valley Dispatch to usage nan Southwest center’s instrumentality and software.
The metropolis will besides support nan Southwest halfway successful bully condition, make repairs arsenic needed and continuing paying for utilities.
Chagrin Valley Dispatch will salary for nan moving of instrumentality from nan Southwest halfway to nan caller Valley View dispatch center, nether nan lease agreement.
Also, Chagrin Valley Dispatch will salary for liability security covering immoderate wounded that mightiness hap astatine nan Southwest center, though Strongsville will proceed paying for immoderate different security it already provides.
Strongsville decided to subordinate Chagrin Valley Dispatch aft immoderate communities served by nan Southwest halfway – including Berea, Olmsted Falls and Olmsted Township – near to subordinate nan North Olmsted dispatch center.
That meant costs to run nan Southwest halfway accrued for nan 4 remaining cities.
Strongsville Finance Director Eric Dean said it will costs nan metropolis astir $1.2 cardinal a twelvemonth to modulation to Chagrin Valley Dispatch.
If Strongsville handled dispatching connected its own, it would person costs astir $1.8 million, Dean said.
Current members of Chagrin Valley Dispatch are Bedford, Bentleyville, Bratenahl, Brecksville, Broadview Heights, Brooklyn, Brooklyn Heights, Chagrin Falls, Chagrin Falls Township, Cleveland Heights, nan Cleveland Metroparks, nan Cuyahoga County Sheriff’s Office, Cuyahoga Heights, Euclid, Gates Mills, Glenwillow, Highland Hills, Hunting Valley, Independence, Maple Heights, Moreland Hills, Newburgh Heights, North Randall, Orange, Richmond Heights, Seven Hills, Shaker Heights, Solon, South Euclid, South Russell, University Heights, Valley View and Woodmere.
