STRONGSVILLE, Ohio — A special city council meeting in Strongsville Tuesday night will consider combining 911 operations and dispatchers with a bigger regional dispatch center. It’s a move city leaders believe could save money, but others worry it could impact emergency responses.

For more than a decade, Strongsville has operated the Southwest Emergency Dispatch Center (SWEDC). Dispatchers there currently field calls for Strongsville, Berea, Brook Park, North Royalton and Middleburg Heights.

On July 30, the union representing SWEDC dispatchers and the area’s patrol officers received a letter from Strongsville’s law department informing the group of the city’s plans to transfer dispatch operations to Chagrin Valley Dispatch (CVD).

“It’s really the first we heard about it and knew about i

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