Plainsboro has joined with South Brunswick, Monroe, and Jamesburg to study the feasibility of combining the four towns’ dispatch services.##M:[more]##
The dispatchers receive emergency calls and direct the township’s police, fire and rescue squads to those emergencies.
According to Township Administrator Bob Sheehan, the township solicited proposals from firms that could perform the study, which he emphasized is just a study at this point. The four towns agreed on hiring L. Robert Kimball and Associates of Philadelphia to do the work.
The firm’s proposal was for $66,”517, but Plainsboro applied to the state Department of Community Affairs for what is known as a S.H.A.R.E. (SHaring Available Resources Effectively) grant. “We were fortunate to receive that grant in the amount of $61,”528,” said Sheehan, who said the three largest towns involved in the study split the remaining cost to hire the consultant.
“Plainsboro is the lead community in this effort, so we sponsored the grant, and we are formally the town that is securing the services of the consultant,” Sheehan explained. “The Township Committee has taken on necessary actions to initiate that study.”
Sheehan said township officials will be meeting in the next couple of weeks with the study group to get started on the feasibility study, but “we’re approaching this with no particular biases to where we head,” or what the outcome may be, said Sheehan.
