Ann Cummings: “We had, at that point, we have a little over 8,000 people…”

“If somebody gets sick, hurt, has a heart attack, it's Montpelier's fire and ambulance. If there's a fire, it's the Montpelier Fire Department that comes. And the state was not reimbursing us. We had, at that point, we have a little over 8,000 people that lived here, but we had 20,000 people a day in town that we were providing services for, and most of them were at the state. Mayor Romano before me had started working with the state. And at that point, we were receiving, I think it was $35,000 a. Which seems token.” (05:20–05:34)

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