LEWISTON – Local business leaders, lawyers, financial planners, police and a member of the Maine Supreme Judicial Court will lead an effort to combine Lewiston and Auburn services.

Auburn Mayor Normand Guay and Lewiston Mayor Lionel Guay named the 10 members of their Commission on Joint Services Thursday.

The mayors said they expect the group to meet as soon as next week.

“We will be there to give them their charge, and then they’re on their own,” Normand Guay said. “We won’t even be involved. This is a nonpolitical group and we want them to decide where they’re going.”

The mayors announced their plan in September and enlisted the support of their respective city councils last week, but waited to say just who would serve.

The members are: Maine Supreme Judicial Court Judge Robert Clifford, a member of the original L/A Together commission; Linda Hertell, of Richardson Hollow Associates; Maine Community Policing Institute Associate Director Larry Gilbert; former Auburn police Officer Jeff Harmon; Community Credit Union CEO Donna Steckino; attorneys George Hess and Ronald Bissonette; certified public accountant Mark Carrier; John Emerson of Emerson Chevrolet; and K.C. Geiger, formerly of Geiger.

The group has nine months to review services in each city and to issue a plan to combine some of them. Sharing could range from buying office supplies jointly to combining police or fire departments.

“We expect them to come back with a concrete plan about what can be done,” Lionel Guay said. “They may come and say it would work for some things, not for others.”

It will be up to councilors to adopt the commission’s findings.

A 1996 report, “L/A Together,” will be used as background by the current commission.

“Some of that was acted on, and some wasn’t,” Lionel Guay said. “That was a report, more of a survey. This will be much more concrete.”

Clifford, who served on the L/A Together commission, said he expects the Commission on Joint Services to focus on some new areas.

“Hopefully, this will be a further step down the road,” Clifford said. “They didn’t do a lot with L/A Together. This won’t be as broad, and we have a shorter time frame. So I expect us to focus on some shorter-term, more concrete areas.”