Town to Share Some Services With Andover
The measure is an effort to streamline.
With an agreement between North Andover and Andover, the two towns will now share certain public works services. The Board of Selectmen adopted the municipal aid public sharing idea last year. Officials in both towns met to address how the towns can combine services in some areas to make things more efficient and cost-effective. Shared services will include: Town Manager Andrew Maylor said he hopes the collaboration will affect capital plans in the long run. For example, North Andover has a plan to replace a street sweeper. If the maintenance for that was shared with Andover, the machine would last longer and save the town money. "In the long term i think we need some strategic partnerships with them, and certainly the public works is an …
kathy Stevens
2:16 pm on Wednesday, January 9, 2013
We were one town originally. The division into two Parishes and then two towns occurred in the pre-automobile era when travel was more difficult in winter. None of the original reasons for division are relevant today. Sharing is good in concept; the devil is always in the details of execution as several have pointed out already. more ›