Branam v. Simons

—Crew III, J.P.

Proceeding pursuant to CPLR article 78 (transferred to this Court by order of the Supreme Court, entered in Columbia County) to review a determination of respondent Gerald R. Simons which terminated petitioner’s employment as a 911 dispatcher for the County of Columbia.

On March 9, 2000 petitioner, a dispatcher for Columbia County 911 Services, received a call concerning an elderly woman who had fallen and injured her head at the Open Gate trailer park in the Town of Stockport, Columbia County. Petitioner did not hear the first three digits of the telephone number that the…