NEWBURGH – The city administration in Newburgh wants to transition to a public safety dispatch center to merge the operations of the police and fire departments independent operations.
Mayor Torrance Harvey said it could happen in the next few months.
“The new budget starts January 1, 2023, so we have about three weeks between now and new year’s and so once we enter that new fiscal year, then those funds become readily available and then we can start transitioning those major things we have for the upcoming new year,” he told Mid-Hudson News.
There has been no public announcement or discussion about a possible merged operation. Word of it was discussed in a new PBA contract, which said that the midnight shift would be outsourced, presumably to the Orange County 911 center.
The new police union contract also said each police officer salary rate would be increased by 1.5 percent above the rate in effect on December 31, 2022.
