UPDATE: Council Approves $48K for Emergency Services Agreement

Updated 8:30 p.m.

After tabling the subject for several meetings, Twinsburg City Council is approved a new new contract with Reminderville for sharing the and dispatch center Tuesday night.

The new contract will span three years charging the village $48,500 a year, starting at the beginning of this year and expiring in December 2014.

Reminderville will make the payments on either a quarterly or monthly basis, whichever it prefers.

The two communities have shared the service since 2008 and the most recent contract of $32,500 per year expired in December 2011.

The last time the contract was discussed at city council, Councilman Bill Furey the price should be raised to match the city's costs.

“I think we’re undercharging for this service,” Furey said March 14. According to Furey, seven percent of calls into Twinsburg's dispatch center are from Reminderville. He'd like to see the village cover the cost of their usage in a new, three-year agreement, including adders based on shifting employee cost.

Twinsburg has $750,000 budgeted for its dispatch center in 2012. An increase to $48,500 covers 6.5 percent of the total cost.