The agency that coordinates police and fire communications in Kalamazoo County has picked its first executive director.
Jeff Troyer joins the Kalamazoo County Consolidated Dispatch Authority after doing the same job in Calhoun County for the last six years. Troyer earlier ran the consolidated dispatch center in Montcalm County.
The Kalamazoo County agency was created in late 2014 to merge 911 emergency radio services that had previously been run by county as well as the cities of Kalamazoo and Portage, Kalamazoo Township, and Western Michigan University.