EMERGENCY COMMUNICATIONS CENTER PLANS TO EXPAND
SERVICES, MANAGEMENT STRUCTURE
	CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va., Jan. 4 -- With the Enhanced 911 system
now in place, the Emergency Communications Center (ECC) board has
set a new list of priorities for the next several years.
	Among them is a revised management structure to assure the
level of attention required by the center's increasingly complex
operations and ambitious new initiatives, board chairman Leonard W.
Sandridge announced Thursday.
	As of July 1, center director Wayne S. Campagna will have
specific responsibility for communications system projects,
Sandridge said.  The most immediate is managing the design and
construction of a new emergency communications center, including
finalizing a ground lease agreement between the city, Albemarle
County and the University of Virginia for the proposed site adjacent
to the University police department on Ivy Road.
	The new facility will make possible other expanded
communication services that Campagna will be responsible for
developing.  One, a high-power trunked radio system, will provide 95
percent radio coverage of sites in the city, county and University
areas. Radioed reports will be part of a new computer-aided dispatch
system, which will give dispatchers easy access to linked
information from the E911 telephone and radio systems, along with
data from mobile terminals, computerized maps and archived records.
	"In developing these new systems, Mr. Campagna will work
closely with project teams representing public safety agencies,
local government bodies, the University and the ECC staff,"
Sandridge said.
	As part of moving toward the new management structure, the
board will search over the next several months for an ECC director
who will have general oversight and management responsibilities for
the center's daily operations.
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January 4, 1996