Committee members asked for projections showing what ambulance revenue and expenses would look like if the town were to capture that revenue directly. Greg Colby, town manager, said he was "still reconciling" collections but offered a ballpark: "In the neighborhood of $275,000 for the year," clarifying that the figure reflected cash collections for eight to nine months and did not include outstanding receivables as of Dec. 31.

Members discussed the mechanics of capturing revenue. One committee member noted that nearby Atkinson had voted to establish a revolving account to capture ambulance revenue; committee discussion contrasted that approach with the town's current practice of routing certain receipts through the general fund and then appropriating them by warrant article. Colby and others raised accounting and legal questions about whether receipts that the town holds while acting as agent for other communities should be treated as town revenue or as fiduciary pass‑through funds accounted for separately.

Colby said the auditors were consulted: "I had the auditors in today and had a lengthy conversation on it," and described the legal nuance that funds the town holds as agent for other towns are not the town's own expenses. One participant referenced statutes and accounting practice in the discussion (transcript references included an unclear mention of "3195" in relation to fund handling). The committee recorded no decision to establish an enterprise or revolving fund at this meeting; a member said they had raised the topic with the selectmen and that "no one wanted to take any action on setting up a revolving fund or an enterprise fund at this point."

Colby explained collection timing variability: "It depends on the carrier" (Medicaid, Blue Cross, UnitedHealthcare) and on the third‑party billing vendor; collection cycles and the rate of uncollected receivables can vary. He said the town is "working on" a mechanism to realize bad debt but has not finalized a vendor or process.

The committee asked for follow‑up projections and for continued coordination with the town manager and auditors; no formal motion to change accounting treatment was made at the Jan. 7 meeting.