A plan to build a new headquarters for the local emergency dispatch office has apparently been scrapped.

In May, Pennyrile Emergency Assistance Center officials approached the county fiscal court seeking to acquire a section of land on the county-owned recycling center property in Princeton as the future site of a new dispatch building.

Dispatch Director Wendy Warfield voiced plans to apply for Homeland Security grant funding to finance the building’s construction.

During Tuesday’s fiscal court meeting, though, Judge/Executive Brock Thomas announced the PEAC board no longer planned to apply for the grant.

The PEAC board, comprising Thomas, Princeton Mayor Gale Cherry, County Attorney Bridgie Miller, Sheriff Stan Hudson and Princeton Police Chief Don Weedman, met with Warfield Monday afternoon at City Hall and came to the decision not to pursue the grant, which had a June 30 application deadline.

Miller said Wednesday that the decision was primarily one of economics.

A review of the dispatch center’s upcoming budget, which includes a $25,000 cut in the City of Princeton’s contribution, made applying for the grant unfeasible when compared with the added costs of transferring equipment, computers and communications gear from the current site on Northfield Drive to a new site.

Warfield said similar grants may be pursued in the future, if they are available.

For now, the dispatch center will stay where it is.

“I think they’re trying to look at the best way to make the most use out of the facilities they have,” said Miller.