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Residents urge council to keep dispatch separate, question tax abatements and ask for downtown parking and traffic-calming
Summary
Several residents asked the Bellefontaine City Council to keep sheriff and police dispatchers separate, questioned recent residential tax abatements and requested traffic-calming and parking solutions for Main Street and Colton Avenue.
During the communications-from-citizens portion of the meeting, three residents raised concerns about dispatch consolidation, annexation and local traffic and parking.
Diane Hager, a former council member who lives at 1105 Milligan Road, said she opposes merging sheriff and police dispatchers and warned that combining dispatch could slow response times. "I do not like the idea. I think that the citizens will get better, quicker response if we keep the dispatchers separate," she said. Hager also…
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