Public Safety Committee

Charge to the Public Safety Committee

Committee Makeup: Seven Support to the committee will be the Fire Chief, Police chief and Town

Administrator

Charge:

The purpose of this committee is to assist the Select Board in its decision process as it relates to regionalization of dispatch, delivery of services to include all public safety services with a focus on fire training and response, police training and response, emergency management response, ambulance training and response, public safety services to include building permits and inspections, accounting practices including receivables collection and reporting, payroll data collection and accountability, and emergency communications relating to changes as a result of regionalization of public safety services.

This committee will research and expand upon the work of others including ALS study committee, regional dispatch study groups, Town Plan Committee and any other reports and analysis relevant to Princeton public safety.

The Select Board’s objective is to start the process of regionalization of dispatch and improve the fire and ambulance emergency response and coverage while considering the implementation of a full-time fire chief position for the wellbeing of Princeton residents. It is the opinion of the Select Board that all emergency response should be reviewed to provide cohesive and efficient public safety departments.

The product of the committee will be short reports allowing the Select Board to in logical steps make informed decisions about dispatch, emergency fire coverage and training with budgets for each, fulltime fire chief with budgets and preliminary job descriptions, emergency ambulance coverage and training with budgets for each, payroll data collection and accountability, customer service for permits and inspections resulting from possible changes in the coverages previously listed.

The expectation is that this work should be accomplished within the 2011 budget cycle with the provison that an extension of time is possible.