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Intern builds interactive calculator to estimate cost of scaling Acton police and fire services
Summary
Ian Ryan presented a spreadsheet-based cost calculator that estimates staffing gaps, per-position costs and property-tax impacts for proposed additions to police and fire departments, and compared those costs to other capital projects.
Ian Ryan, an intern and rising junior, presented a spreadsheet-based cost calculator that estimates the fiscal impact of scaling Acton’s police and fire staffing and compares recurring costs to existing capital projects.
Ryan said the tool combines local variables — population, hiring costs, salary and benefits estimates, asset lifespans and department capacity thresholds — to produce an annualized fiscal implication and a per-household or per-property assessed-value cost. He noted the police…
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