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MANCHESTER — The future of Manchester’s emergency dispatch service will now be decided in part at this year’s Town Election, and not at Special Town Meeting this summer.
Selectmen voted unanimously earlier this week to feature a non-binding vote “on the future of dispatch” on the election ballot on May 17. The exact wording of the question has yet to be determined.
Selectmen said the move was needed as more voters participate in the Town Election than Town Meeting.
For years, the town has debated whether to join a regional dispatch center instead of having its own employees work the phones at Manchester Police Department. Earlier this month, North Shore Regional 911 Center of Middleton announced it has the capacity to take on all of Manchester’s dispatch services at no cost to the town…
