 On Monday, July 10th, the city of Pikeville named Cody Williams the new Pikeville 9-1-1 slash emergency management director. Williams has been working in dispatch services for eight years and is more than ready to take on the new role. Mountaintop News spoke with Williams to hear his thoughts on his promotion. I'm just looking forward to, you know, taking the next step in my career, trying to just do the absolute best job that I can for dispatch and their community as far as, you know, dealing with the calls. I do want to be more hands-on with that still. I don't want to leave dispatch and, you know, I've done it for eight years and even now being in my first full week, it's hard to not grab for the radio or grab for the phone, but those guys that's in dispatch through the real rock stars, I'm just kind of behind the scenes now. Cancer. It's a very scary word, but an outstanding treatment facility was here at home. I was led to the Lawson Cancer Center. As a nurse practitioner at the Lawson Cancer Center, we are champions for our patients. I am so happy for Robert. The treatment worked. Now that Williams is director, he plans to put every member of the dispatch center through additional training alongside the police and fire departments. His experience in the field will aid him as director. For now, I just want to try to continue to run things, how they are, but eventually down the road, I'd love to get us into some more trainings. I know we just a few weeks ago had a excellent training that the police and fire put on. I'd love to be able to get dispatch more involved with something like that. I would just like to say, you know, big thank you for this opportunity to, you know, step into this position. I really appreciate, you know, everything that the city has done for me so far. I've always been welcoming, being a very young, rookie director. I said, I hope I can live up to their expectations that they have for me. Reporting for Mountain Top News, I'm Mick Colum.