POLL: Should Town Return to Milford Area Communications Center?

Amherst is exploring ways to save money to balance the Fiscal Year 2013 default budget.

One "savings opportunity," as put forth this week by the Amherst Citizens Association, could be returning to the Milford Area Communications Center (MACC). Police Chief Peter Lyon that the move would not achieve the desired savings.

The Amherst Public Safety Communications Center has provided dispatching services for the town's police, fire, EMS and Department of Public Works since Jan. 1, 2005. The center is open 24 hours a day, seven days a week, year-round. Dispatchers field about 50,000 calls annually, according to the town's website.

Should the town abandon its public safety communications center and return to the Milford Area Communications Center?

What do you think? Please take the poll attached and leave a comment below.