Lehigh County Commissioners approved two contracts, during their May 10 meeting, with Essential Management Solutions LLC to provide 911 regionalization consolidation management services.

Director of general services Rick Molchany explained the contracts to the board.

According to Molchany, the first contract will provide construction management for a consolidated 911 communications center and regionalized equipment plan.

Molchany said Lehigh County is different from Bethlehem City and Northampton.

“Lehigh County has a responsibility to more than just the Allentown consolidation,” Molchany said adding. “[The goal] is to have an effective communications center.”

The second contract involves combining four different policies for the dispatch center, which Molchany noted, will represent the entire Lehigh County.

The work is 100 percent funded by the Pennsylvania Emergency Management Agency.

Commissioner Brad Osborne thanked Molchany for his work.

“These fully reimbursable projects are the result of Rick working with PEMA,” Osborne said.

Essential Management Solutions in the past represented the county well, Molchany told commissioners.

“We’re working with PEMA so we can have a good plan,” Molchany said.

The goal is to have an effective plan by June 19, 2020.