Article: Cities may negotiate dispatch costs

LEWISTON - Twin Cities representatives to a county group studying a combined emergency dispatch service got the room they need Wednesday to negotiate.

Now Lewiston City Administrator Jim Bennett and Auburn police Chief Phil Crowell will meet with the other members of the dispatch group and begin designing a unified response service for police, fire and emergency medical dispatch for all of Androscoggin County.

"There are significant gains to be made through doing this," Lewiston Councilor Tom Peters said Wednesday during a joint Lewiston- Auburn council meeting. "There are gains in costs, in professionalism, in saving a life and in flexibility."

Bennett, chairman of the Androscoggin County ...

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