FARMINGTON – Olive Toothaker was named deputy director of Franklin County’s Emergency Management Agency on Tuesday.

Franklin County commissioners approved the job description for the position last December, though Toothaker was given the duties several years ago. She had no job description then.

Toothaker, of Wilton, has worked for Franklin County EMA since 1992.

Commissioners voted in January to post the job county-wide to adhere to their personnel policy. Toothaker’s was the only application submitted for the job.

EMA Director Tim Hardy asked to have Toothaker’s pay increase be retroactive to Jan. 1, but commissioners said they couldn’t do that because they didn’t have a deputy director then.

In other business, commissioners voted to hire Jason Hamlin of Strong, residing temporarily in Dixfield to help his grandparents, as a full-time corrections officer to fill an opening at the jail.

The panel also voted to allow Sheriff Dennis Pike to have a full-time temporary dispatcher position for 30 days.

Kyle Ellis of Wilton will be in that position, Pike said. Ellis is a former a dispatcher who resigned in 2007 to take a job with the Farmington Police Department. He injured his knee during the first week of the Criminal Justice Academy and has since decided to return to dispatching, Pike said.

“He’s done an excellent job for us,” Pike said. “He was dispatcher of the year last year.”

Dispatcher Meagan Mims has applied for the new dispatcher position, which would allow for three dispatchers on duty at peak times, something approved in the 2008 budget Her application was accepted.

Pike will bring the full-time temporary dispatcher to commissioners again after 30 days for an additional 30-day extension.