Board recommends Milt Spalding for dispatch director; city, county vote Tuesday

The E-911 Dispatch Board voted Monday to recommend hiring interim dispatch director Milt Spalding as permanent dispatch director.

NC GAZETTE / WBRT RADIO
STAFF REPORT

Monday, Feb. 6, 2017, 5:30 p.m. — Interim E-911 Dispatch Director Milt Spalding will be the new director of the joint city-county 911 dispatch center.

MILT SPALDING

In a special E-911 Dispatch Board meeting Monday afternoon, the board voted unanimously to hire Spalding as director. The move will require Nelson Fiscal Court and the Bardstown City Council to approve the hiring. Fiscal Court and the city council have the matter on their respective agendas for approval Tuesday.

Spalding fills the director’s job that has been vacant since former Director Debbie Carter resigned effective Friday, Aug. 26, 2016. Carter’s resignation followed months of acrimony and allegations between the Bardstown City Hall and Nelson County Dispatch during which Mayor John Royalty lobbied the council to agree to leave the joint city-county dispatch agreement and outsource the city’s police and fire dispatching to the Kentucky State Police post in Elizabethtown.

Spalding served as interim dispatch director prior to the board hiring Carter in 2011. Spalding also has years of experience in local broadcast radio. He currently is on the air weekday evenings as host of On The Record on Hometown Radio WBRT and BRTV on Bardstown Cable channel 19.

The 911 board’s new chairman, Lt. Kaelen Matthews of the Nelson County Sheriff’s Office, said that Spalding’s qualifications and experience made him an outstanding candidate for the director position.

Nelson Fiscal Court will vote to approve Spalding’s move to director at its 9 a.m. meeting Tuesday; Bardstown City Council will vote on the matter at its 7 p.m. meeting Tuesday evening.

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