RUMFORD — The Board of Selectmen decided Thursday evening not to support a letter from Mexico selectmen asking for a list of Med-Care Ambulance employees’ salaries.

Mexico selectmen sent letters to Med-Care member towns to gauge their interest in pursuing the information, after some selectmen were concerned about increases in Med-Care’s budget.

Med-Care directors said they were told by their lawyer that they did not have to release the names and salaries of employees.

John Madigan, town manager for Rumford and Mexico, advised Mexico selectmen it would cost “a couple thousand dollars” to hire a lawyer to pursue a Freedom of Access Act request for the information.

Rumford Selectman Frank DiConzo said he would not support that. Instead, he made a motion, which was approved, to invite the three Rumford representatives to the Med-Care board to the next selectmen meeting Oct. 1.

DiConzo said perhaps they could ask the three — Bob Chase, Brad Adley and Stephanie Wilson — if they could request a breakdown of full-time and part-time salaries, and benefit packages.

In other business, Police Chief Stacy Carter said his department had a few details this summer with Operation Hot Spot, the two-year crime-fighting program.

“We’ve made a significant impact as far as visibility and comments from people in the Hot Spot area who are appreciative of the extra work being done down there,” he said.

Carter also noted they have become part of the Western Maine Addiction Task Force.

“We hope to bring in a heroin addiction forum to town in October. We’re working on that as a task force to hopefully try to get some of this heroin under control,” he said.

Carter also said October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month and there are events scheduled for the public, including a vigil at 6 p.m. Oct. 5 at the Rumford Information Center. Oct. 14 is a day to wear purple and to participate in a walk at 5:30 p.m. from Hosmer Field to the Island and back.

Madigan assured a Jed Martin Road resident that rebuilding a section of it and paving 6,830 feet would begin next week. The work had been scheduled for 2014.

Selectmen unanimously approved a request for a letter of support from Western Maine Transportation.

At the previous board meeting, Madigan read a letter from Western Maine Transportation that asked for a letter of support in requesting funding from Oxford County instead of towns the agency serves.

“They need a certain amount of funding in order to secure state and federal matching funds,” Madigan said.

Selectman Peter Chase said he would have an issue if the agency went to the county and in a couple of years came to the town for more money.

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