Summary
On Friday, 10 days after a special town meeting was held and townspeople voted to disband the Bethel Police Department in favor of contracting for police services with the Oxford County Sheriff's Department, a majority of selectmen declined to ratify that vote.
There was a worry, selectmen learned, that they and the town could be accused of misappropriating funds by using the money raised at town meeting to fund the police department to contract for police coverage instead.See the full content of this document
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What's the Liability for Ignoring Voters?
Bethel has been talking about disbanding the police department and contracting with Oxford County for police services for years, an...
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