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House Ways & Means finds S.255 favorable to pilot Windham County law‑enforcement governance council
Summary
On April 22 the House Ways & Means Committee voted 10–0–1 to find S.255 favorable, advancing a bill to create a time‑limited Windham County Law Enforcement Governance Council pilot that would let participating towns fund sheriff‑provided services through a special per‑capita assessment and require quarterly reporting and a mid‑pilot check‑in.
The House Ways & Means Committee voted 10–0–1 on April 22 to find S.255 favorable, advancing legislation that would create a limited pilot Windham County Law Enforcement Governance Council to coordinate sheriff‑provided policing and related services for participating towns and fund them through a special per‑capita assessment.
The bill would let Windham County towns opt in by vote of their legislative bodies, give each participating municipality one council representative (a serving selectboard member), and require the council to set an annual budget that assistant judges would include as a separate line in the county budget. Legislative counsel Tim Devlin said the council would determine service levels, develop performance metrics, monitor delivery and enter necessary agreements, while county treasurers would levy and collect the special assessment proportionate to each member municipality’s population.
"This creates the council for…
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