MEXICO — The Mexico Board of Selectmen will hold a joint meeting with the Dixfield Board of Selectmen at 5 p.m. Tuesday, March 24, to continue discussing consolidating police services.
During their March 9 selectmen’s meeting, Dixfield Board of Selectmen Chairman Scott Belskis said he wanted to revisit the possibility of discussions with Mexico to merge their police departments.
“The figure that was first presented to us showed that our savings would be pretty much one-third of Mexico’s savings,” Belskis said. “I think it showed $130,000 total savings, and $28,000 of that was our savings.”
He said that figure was problematic, since Dixfield and Mexico had “similar size police departments and coverage areas.”
Belskis said, “I asked Carlo if he could sit down with our (interim) police chief and Mexico’s police chief and figure out a way to make the savings more even.”
The Mexico Board of Selectmen is also meeting with Rumford selectmen about the possibility of consolidating police departments.
The Mexico board will hold their selectmen’s meeting directly after the joint meeting with Dixfield. Among the items on their agenda include:
* Approval of the Planning Board’s recommendations for the Board of Appeals ordinance, and approval to be placed on June 9 ballot.
* Approval of the Planning Board’s recommendations for the building code ordinance, and approval to be placed on June 9 ballot.
* Approval of changes to the referendum town meeting ordinance, and approval to be placed on June 9 ballot.
* Ballot for electing AVCOG officers.
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