An emergency management official described starting the town emergency role in 2008 with minimal equipment and urged the Select Board to ensure the emergency management office has vehicles and resources. "When I started this emergency management job back in 2008, I was handed a recycling container, a laptop computer, a mobile radio from NEMA, and a handheld radio," the official said, describing a history of scarce resources. "You can't not invest in your emergency management department."

The official objected to a recent vehicle transfer that moved a vehicle originally used by emergency management to other town departments. "It was tried to be portrayed as a gift, and I questioned it," the official said. The speaker said such transfers should be processed through capital planning and the Select Board rather than reassigned without departmental input. Advisory Committee members told the broadcast a maintenance-account approach that splits vehicle maintenance by department is problematic; one committee member said a single townwide vehicle maintenance account would be more appropriate.

Fire Chief David Dicke, speaking separately about staffing, said the fire department also needs more personnel: "Just like the police department, we need more staff. Having two full-time people on every day is not necessarily always enough," he said.

The meeting transcript does not show a formal Select Board vote on the vehicle transfer during the broadcast; speakers urged the Select Board to adopt a clear policy on reuse and surplus of vehicles and to route capital requests through the town's Capital Planning process. Several speakers also requested public apologies after prior critical comments toward department staff; one Select Board member apologized on-air during the segment. The broadcast did not provide dates for any forthcoming Select Board action on vehicle policy.