We are coming up on the second
anniversary of the Town Council shutting down the Consolidation of the Lisbon
Communication Center and the Androscoggin County Dispatch project for providing
emergency services to Lisbon. The
estimated cost savings to the community was approximately $190,000.00 tax
dollars per year. So far, the community
has lost out on approximately $380,000.00 tax dollars. The
following fake councilors can take full credit for this: Roger Bickford, Eric Metivier, Chris Brunelle
and Dale Crafts.
These individuals have made no effort to
investigate and resolve any questions they had at the time so we can assume
that questions were NOT the real reason for shutting down the project. If these
individuals really cared about our community or they would have looked into how
to save approximately $190,000.00 per year in tax dollars for the people. However,
they never made an effort to provide relieve for the people but instead
increased our taxes every year. However,
come November of this year, the people will have an opportunity to correct this
situation and vote someone in that will put whatever is best for the community
before any personal agendas.
There are several critical
reasons to having Androscoggin County Dispatch provide our emergency
services to the community.
(1)
Having Androscoggin County Dispatch
immediately dispatch OUR first responder upon receipt of the 911 call will
provide the best quality of life possible.
Forcing Androscoggin County Dispatch to contact Lisbon Communication
Center prior to dispatching OUR first responder (current system) is time
consuming and if they cannot make contact because 353-2500 is busy as has
happened on numerous occasions cause a delay that puts our lives as risk
needlessly.
(2)
Having Androscoggin County Dispatch
providing emergency services to Lisbon will save the community approximately
$190,000.00 tax dollars. This is NOT
chump change and will help to reduce our taxes.
(3)
Having Androscoggin County Dispatch
providing emergency services to Lisbon will enable Sergeant Moore to return to
the Police Department full time. This
will improve the efficiency of the Patrol Division.
(4)
None of the individuals currently filling
positions as dispatchers are currently qualified as Emergency Medical
Dispatchers (EMD) so they should be classified as Communication
Specialist. There is no NEGEN911 equipment
in the Lisbon Communication Center and therefore they do not receive 911 calls
directly and cannot establish the Emergency Medial Code (EMC) that is required
to be pass on to the Emergency Medical Technicians (EMTs) in an emergency
medical situation.
These are a few advantages
for closing the Lisbon Communication Center. However, I am sure that by now you
are asking the same question “Why has these imposters not looked into the
situation in two years?” This is a scenario which should be of
great importance to provide residents with better quality of life and would
save the people money. These two
items should always be a top priority in order to improve our community. Think about how far $380,000.00 could have
gone to improving our community.
This brings me to the reason
for this article. If the phonies do not come to an agreement with Androscoggin County
Dispatch or any other Public Safety Answering Point (PSAP) by the end of the
year; the town will lose another $190,000.00 for next year. I have
talked to Androscoggin County Dispatch and they estimate it will take
approximately six months to integrate Lisbon into their system. This will move us into yet another budget
season and the community will lose out for another year.
The Town Council has stalled enough. Let’s have a Town Council workshop and
include representative from Androscoggin County Dispatch or whatever PSAP they
want to use and resolve all questions and move forward and do what is right.
Larry Fillmore
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