OLD LYME POLICE OPTIONS COMMITTEE TO MEET TODAY
Old Lyme — The Police Services Options Committee is scheduled to meet for the first time at 6 p.m. today at Old Lyme Town Hall.
The committee will study the potential of one police department to serve both Old Lyme and East Lyme, along with other options for policing, and make a recommendation to the Old Lyme Board of Selectmen.
The committee is tasked with considering the impact of working with East Lyme on police services, including costs, representation of Old Lyme on the Police Commission; the language of a possible agreement; police scheduling; services to the beach area during the summer; revenue from parking tickets; and collaboration with the community, according to a list of responsibilities approved by the selectmen.
The selectmen appointed the following members to the committee: Matthew Reed, a police officer for the town of Clinton and president of the Lyme-Old Lyme Little League; Beth Sullivan, who has served on town boards, including the Old Lyme Snow Plowing Committee; Matthew Ward, a state trooper for the Troop F barracks in Westbrook and a former Killingworth resident trooper; Fred Callahan, who was a member of the Newington Police Department for 24 years and is a town constable for Newington and the security commissioner at Point O' Woods Beach and security director for the Federation of Old Lyme Beaches; Angelo Faenza of the Sound View Improvements Committee, who is a liquor control commissioner for the state Department of Consumer Protection; and Michael Miller, an attorney, who is a committee member for the Lyme-Old Lyme Boy Scout Troop 26 and has served on the Old Lyme Economic Development Commission.
Keith Coakley, who served as chairman of the Beach Stipend Committee, also was appointed to the committee, but his participation depends on the schedule of meetings that is adopted for the committee, according to First Selectwoman Bonnie Reemsnyder.
The selectmen appointed Harvey Gemme, an alternate on the Zoning Commission, as an alternate.