Monadnock Ledger-Transcript
Published: 2/3/2021 1:04:53 PM
The rising Wilton Ambulance contract, building a relationship with new Crotched Mountain School operators Gersh Autism, and expanding broadband infrastructure are some of the challenges the Town of Greenfield faces in 2021.
Greenfield’s budget hearing, a preliminary step towards addressing those challenges, is scheduled for Thursday, Feb. 4 at 5:30 p.m. in advance of a May 1 Town Meeting, to be held outdoors in Oak Park.
Wilton Ambulance, which began serving Greenfield last year, is billing Greenfield $97,135 in 2021 as compared to $57,800 last year. This is not entirely unexpected, Town Administrator Aaron Patt said. When Greenfield participated in planning the 2020 budget, they pointed out some decisions Wilton Ambulance was making were likely to catch up with them in later years. “That’s happening now,” he said. “If the revenue is weaker than expected, and it was not accounted for when they were making budgets in the previous year, it catches up with you,” he said. The ambulance service had collected about 65 percent of the $325,000 they billed in 2020, according to Select Board meeting minutes from December.