Vote will authorize emergency communications course

At their January meeting, Oconee school trustees will be asked to authorize a course that’ll equip high school students with the know-how toward careers in 9-1-1 emergency communications. According to Lisa Simmons, director of instruction for the public schools, it’s a course scheduled for space in the new Hamilton Career and Technology Center that is scheduled to be finished for opening in August next year. Simmons told the trustees last night that a former long-time sheriff’s officer and current law enforcement course instructor Steve Jenkins is to be the teacher. After last night’s meeting, Simmons confirmed to 101.7/WGOG NEWS that the emergency communications class space is also to be arranged as an alternate Oconee County communications center, to be used in the event the facilities at the Law Enforcement Center in Walhalla become disabled.