By Curt Brown
South Coast Today
DARTMOUTH, Mass. — The town has struck a new deal with its ambulance provider that officials said will save taxpayers nearly $2 million over the next six years.
By renegotiating the existing 10-year contract with Stat Ambulance Service of Dartmouth, the town’s annual costs for ambulance service will drop from $328,000 to $248,000 beginning in October, the last year of the current contract.
The town and Stat also agreed to a new five-year contract, beginning in 2011, under which the town will pay nothing for ambulance service and will receive a $40,000 annual contribution from the company toward the costs of emergency 911 dispatch services.
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