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A town hall meeting hosted by Meadville City Council on Wednesday to discuss the future of Meadville Police Department’s dispatch staff was scheduled for 90 minutes but ended in about half that time: It didn’t take long to reveal the overwhelmingly clear consensus.

Those in attendance — seemingly every single one of them — wanted the city to keep its own staff rather than allowing Crawford County Public Safety to take over dispatching duties for city police…