After years of searching, the Tri-Com Dispatch Center, which provides 911 services to St. Charles, Geneva and Batavia, may be close to finding a new home next to the state’s youth correctional center on Illinois Highway 38.
The city’s Government Operations Committee this week approved plans for a contract to purchase 1 acre for a new center. The City Council must approve the plan.
Police Chief Don Shaw said Tri-Com needs an acre, which costs $380,000 to $400,000, to relocate facilities now sharing 4,200 square feet in Geneva’s Police and Fire Department facility. A space study showed the center needs 6,000 square feet for its police, fire and ambulance dispatching operations.
The U.S. Department of Justice is giving the center a technology grant of $800,000 for computer and dispatch equipment, Shaw said.
Tri-Com had unsuccessfully sought to move its operations to the Geneva Historical Museum building.
