Officials discuss using fire/EMS slice to offset central dispatch fees and preserve local services
County advisers and municipal officials discussed weighting the fire/EMS allocation to reduce or eliminate central dispatch fees for towns and how different population/service-area weightings could change town shares. No formal decision was made; AIC modeling was requested.
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Officials and advisers explored whether part of the fire and EMS income-tax slice could be used to offset central dispatch fees and thereby ease municipal general-fund pressure. Tim Harmon noted central dispatch savings could be realized if the county weighted some fire/EMS distribution toward territories that fund dispatch, and he suggested those dollars could be reallocated in ways that would be effectively revenue-neutral for the county.
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