Bruce Romero, formerly the assistant director at the Pitkin County Communications Center, was recently named director of the facility.
Romero, who has been with the center for 16 years, was the logical choice and made an outside search unnecessary, Pitkin County Sheriff Joe DiSalvo wrote in a Dec. 4 letter to staff.
?He was head and shoulders above anybody we thought we could?ve got,? DiSalvo said Thursday, adding that Romero is technically savvy and has a good reputation statewide. He replaces former director Mark Gamrat, who resigned in July. Romero has served as interim director since then.
?We don?t have [Romero?s] exact title down? because the communication center?s official name is changing, DiSalvo said. The words ?regional? or ?public safety? may be added to the center?s name.
Romero, 44, said he?s worked in the emergency-communication sector for 24 years, first as a dispatcher for a sheriff?s office in Kansas.
He was hired as a 911 dispatcher in Aspen, and ?has held almost every job you can have over there, which is what you want,? DiSalvo said.
One of Romero?s tasks is condensing two emergency-notification systems into one.
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Bruce Romero, who was recently named director of the county?s communications center, manages a 911 hang-up call this past spring.
During a fire near Basalt in August, the county sent out evacuation notices to residents in a neighborhood using a geographic-based system that called residents? landlines and also a system called Pitkin Alert. Some residents reported that the voicemail the Pitkin Alert system left was garbled, and Romero at the time said the overall system can be improved.
?The Lake Christine fire told us we really need this under one hat,? he said Thursday. ?We?re currently under contract negotiations with a new company to combine the two systems we currently use under one umbrella.?
Romero, who as director makes $79,102, said his Glenwood Springs home is under contract and that he hopes to move closer to Aspen.
DiSalvo?s letter about Romero also announced that the center?s dispatchers will strictly be employees of the sheriff?s office and will be sworn in as special deputies.
Previously, the center was governed by a communications board, the sheriff?s office and other county departments, DiSalvo said.
?It was never very clear,? he said. ?The comm board had a certain amount of authority,? as did the sheriff?s office and the county.
The communications board is comprised of the police chiefs from Aspen, Basalt and Snowmass Village; DiSalvo; the head of Aspen Ambulance; and one fire chief to represent a total of five fire districts in the valley.
Under the new arrangement, the communications board will move to more of an advisory role while the county will run the financial side of the center, DiSalvo said. The sheriff?s office will oversee the rest.
The bureaucratic shuffle was done for ?ease and simplification,? DiSalvo said.
chad@aspendailynews.com
Source: http://www.aspendailynews.com/section/home/155988
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