Charlie Baker: Regional dispatch could improve services

Editor’s note: This commentary is by Charlie Baker, who is executive director of the Chittenden County Regional Planning Commission.
For the past year and a half, eight Chittenden County municipalities banded together to take a fresh look at how we dispatch emergency services (police, fire and emergency medical services (EMS)) throughout the region. The current systems do work, and we appreciate the fine efforts by dispatchers who perform these essential duties 24/7/365. Two recent studies