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Wells boards authorize study to consider incorporating WEMs into town fire department
Summary
In a Dec. 17 joint meeting, the Select Board and the Wells Emergency Medical Services board voted unanimously to authorize the town manager to gather budgetary and personnel information for a possible merger that would bring WEMs operations under the town fire department.
The Select Board and the board of Wells Emergency Medical Services voted unanimously Dec. 17 to authorize the town manager to collect information on the possible incorporation of WEMs operations into the Town of Wells Fire Department.
Supporters framed the step as an information-gathering motion rather than an immediate structural change. Speaker 3, who opened the discussion, said the recommendation traces to a study conducted roughly three years ago and a recent WEMs-board motion that passed unanimously and was forwarded to town leadership. "That motion was, passed unanimously," Speaker 3 said, and he asked the town to explore the proposal’s feasibility.
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