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Chair: Contract talks show progress, disputes remain over fire funding and insurance
Summary
Town officials reviewed a draft contract with the county affecting the local fire department and flagged unresolved language tying additional funding to fire-rating maintenance and a potential $45,000 workers' compensation exposure; no formal vote was taken.
The Chair said the group had made "tremendous progress" on a town-county contract but that three small outstanding issues remained that must be resolved before the agreement would correspond with the July 1 budget effective date. "We're just trying to nail down these last two of three little issues," the Chair said.
The discussion centered on language in the draft that had been struck and returned in edits. The Chair said one focal point was wording that linked any additional funding requests for the fire department to maintaining or increasing the community's fire rating. The Chair argued the draft should not allow a single funding…
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