At tonight's meeting of the Advisory Board, Wednesday, April 20, 2016, the Town Administrator was asked about the large jump in dispatch costs. Part of his answer was that for many years the E 911 grant was used to supplement salaries while the salary appropriation was used for other purposes and that was not correct. The Town Administrator stated that was against the rules and it had to be stopped. He stated that the current chief of police said the Town needed to ween itself off of this money. So perhaps a certain selectmen was not so wrong after all and it was not a bad idea to be looking at the dispatch budget, costs and the E 911 grant. Apparently it does costs more than $37,000.00 to run dispatch.

Jeff Bennett