Excerpts from the DailyHerald.com:
DuPage Public Safety Communications (DU-COMM) has outgrown its facility in Glendale Heights and plans to create a new communications center that will occupy 33,454 square feet of renovated space and new construction at the former DuPage Juvenile Detention Facility at 420 County Farm Road in Winfield. They broke ground Monday and construction is expected to start within a few weeks and be completed by fall 2018. The plan calls for renovating existing space in the former youth home and a roughly 13,400-square-foot addition.
The $15.87 million project is possible because of an intergovernmental agreement DU-COMM reached with the county and the DuPage Emergency Telephone System Board (ETSB).
The ETSB is contributing $4 million to the project, and DU-COMM is using $4.3 million from its cash reserves. DuPage is financing the remaining $7.5 million that DU-COMM will repay during a 25-year lease agreement with the county.
“The portion of the building that will house DU-COMM is going to be built to last,” said county board member Sean Noonan, vice chairman of the board’s public works committee. He said it will be designed to resist 250-mph winds, have added lightning protection and meet standards for the construction of storm shelters.
There are already offices in the building for the DuPage Emergency Telephone System Board and the county’s Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Management.
DU-COMM started operations on the county campus in 1975 before moving to its current location in 1995.
thanks Dan
#1 by Jerry on April 7, 2017 - 6:46 PM
Yes. I live in DuPage County and know of a few changes that are likely. Pleasentview, Tri-State and Westmont should be switching their numbers to coincide with the county numbering system. Not sure when though. Bensenville should be switching their numbers as well to coincide with the county numbering system soon after they switch to ACDC. Once the new ACDC facility is complete, fire dispatching will move from tri-state station 2 to the new building in Addison. I will keep my eyes and ears open and the scanner on.
#2 by cmk420 on April 7, 2017 - 11:21 AM
DUCOMM seems like it is losing more than it is gaining. I just read that ACDC is now fire dispatching for Addison (which makes sense), Wooddale and Itasca. With Roselle moving to DUCOMM’s Fire North frequency, that only leaves two departments on their Fire West frequency. Yes, they are picking up Downers Grove, but they will be on Fire South. ACDC also has picked up Bensenville, Tri-State, Westmont and Pleasantview.
I know the goal is to have two consolidated dispatch centers per county. Any other changes on the horizon??