How can Mayor Hayward be so sure? Because it has been done successfully in Mobile, Ala. Hayward had lunch yesterday with Mike Dow, the strong mayor that turned around that city. Dow said that his city and the county have saved money by combining their emergency dispatch operations. Mobile has been asked to add Baldwin County to the system.
Dow got the Mobile director on the phone to help set up the tour of the system for local officials. The director said that there Homeland Security grants available to help with the consolidation.