FARMINGTON – Franklin County commissioners voted to hire three full-time dispatchers to fill vacancies at the Sheriff’s Department Communications Center.

Sheriff Dennis Pike presented the nominations of Kyle Ellis, Aaron Gordon and Blaine Rackliff.

All three have dispatching experience and previously worked as full- and part-time dispatchers. They left for other careers and have returned to work at the center.

Former dispatchers Mike Wilbur and Vicki Worth have left the county’s employment, Pike said.

Ellis has most recently been working full-time on a temporary basis as a dispatcher after returning to the job from police work.

Rackliff is a paramedic who has worked part-time as a dispatcher and also for the Wilton Police Department.

In other business, commissioners also accepted jail Administrator Sandra Collins’ nomination of Phillip D. Richards to fill a supervisory position at the jail left vacant when Sgt. Doug Blauvelt was hired as the assistant jail administrator.

Five certified corrections officers, including Richards, applied for the vacancy. A committee interviewed candidates before a nomination was made, Collins said. Richards has been with the jail since 2003 as a part-time officer before going full-time in 2005, she said.

Commissioners also hired a part-time corrections officer, Samantha Wyman, as a full-time utility corrections officer. The position was posted in-house and she was the only candidate to apply, Collins said.

Wyman has been with the department since March and has done well in training, Collins said.