SEBRING, Ohio - The Sebring dispatch center could stop taking calls as village council members consider a shutdown.

For more than a year, the village has been struggling to keep up with competitive wages, upgrading equipment and keeping enough staff on hand.

“We're sort of out in the outlying area of Mahoning County but as small as we are it’s very difficult,” Tim Gabrelcik, the Sebring Village Manager said.

Gabrelcik said the emergency answering point inside of the police station has been neglected for the past 20 years and needs expensive equipment to stay up to date.

Voters did approve a police levy last year to bring in more money but it had to be dispersed among all the needs of the department, not just dispatch.

“We were hoping that would help toward it but as we keep monitorin

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