911 director announces resignation
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Gable, who has held the position for 16 months cited personal reasons.
“The reason is because I’m going to be getting married, and my fianc?e is graduating from college next month and her employment opportunities are going to be out west predominantly,” said Gable. “She’s getting a BFA in illustration and won’t be able to find any opportunities around here in her career field. It will be necessary for her to relocate, and I’m going to be going with her.”
Gable said he wanted to give the board plenty of notice to allow for time to do an employee search, then hire and train a replacement. Gable said he would be active in working with the board during the application process.
“Well, let me say, from my perspective,” said board chairman Mark Gribble, “we got Brandon about 18 months ago, and he’s brought us a long way in 18 months. I hate to see him leave.”
Gable endured his share of good-natured ribbing after his announcement.
“The Personnel Committee even offered to find him another woman, but he wouldn’t go for it,” Gribble said, amid general laughter. “But I don’t want to hold anybody back in their private life. You’ve done a terrific job for us and I wish you the best of luck.”
“It’s been my pleasure,” Gable said, “and I’m sad that it has to come to an end, but I’m also very excited.”
Other associates were also complimentary of Gable’s performance during his tenure as director.
“Like many of us, I’m saddened by Brandon’s departure,” said Warren County’s 911 district legal counsel Mike Mahn. “He was one of the top directors in the state, I can tell you that very candidly.”
Gable, who was 25 when he was hired, was one of the youngest 911 directors in the state. He came to the job with about five years of experience in dispatching and emergency communication in his home state of Nevada.
Gable has been instrumental in putting together a five-year plan for the 911 service which included a rate increase petition to upgrade equipment and services that is now being evaluated at the state level, and said it was important to him that his departure would not jeopardize that project or give the state the impression Warren County’s 911 system was in a state of flux.