LISBON – Selectmen voted Tuesday to have all Emergency 911 calls in town routed to Auburn’s answering center by October 2007 to comply with state law.
Police Chief David Brooks assured residents they are not losing their 24-hour, seven-days-a-week dispatch center. In fact, the calls will be transferred back to Lisbon’s communications center where dispatchers will call out police, fire and rescue personnel to respond to the emergencies.
He said Lisbon E911 calls will be “delayed a few seconds” as they travel to the regional answering center below the Auburn Fire Station on Minot Avenue and are rerouted back to Lisbon.
“The public won’t see a difference,” Town Manager Curtis Lunt said.
The Lisbon dispatch center gets an average of seven E911 calls a day, he said, which is a fraction of the total calls received.
Several years ago, the state enacted a law requiring that all E911 calls go to regional public service answering point centers located around the state.
The town will notify the Public Utilities Commission of its decision in July, and implementation must be done by October 2007.
Tuesday’s vote came after the board reviewed a report and recommendation by the Lisbon Community Police Action Group.
In other business, a decision on a plan for $30,000 worth of paving and landscaping at the Sabattus River boat launch was tabled until June 20. Funding for the project was included in a bond approved at the May town meeting, Lunt said.
In other business, the board:
• granted liquor licenses to the Railroad Diner and Good Time Lanes; granted a victualer’s license to The Fudge Lady; authorized the town clerk to approve applications for games of chance; signed a quitclaim deed for Sean and Angelina Rennells; accepted a deed for Patron’s Court, a new road approved by town meeting; set June 27 for a training session for members of the new Town Council that takes over July 1.
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