Rescue dispatch costs can be calculated, official says

LEBANON - While Sanford Regional Communications dispatch costs are based on town populations and not on calls, themselves, Ronni Lynn Champlin, the finance director for the City of Sanford, said today it would be very easy to assign a cost factor for a single town department like Lebanon Rescue. All you would do is figure the proportion of Rescue Calls to overall calls from Lebanon and multiply that factor toward the total cost of dispatch. For this fiscal year, the cost of dispatch to the tow...