With the village's self imposed six month deadline drawing near, discussions at the May 5 village board meeting centered around keeping the fire department's third ambulance in service.

"We need one ambulance for every 400 calls and we've been over that amount," Fire Chief Gregory Wing said. "There are times we have had back-to-back calls and that third ambulance is a necessity."

The department has logged 319 fire and 568 ambulance calls since the first of the year, Wing said during the board meeting.

Wing said the third ambulance is making more money for the village than it is costing in upkeep. "It has more than proven its worthiness," he said.

Brockport Mayor Josephine Matella said village officials will be looking at cost figures to make certain it's cost effective to keep the ambulance on the road.

The village is presently covering 98-99 percent of its own ambulance calls - up from 62 percent at this time last year, Wing reported.

In conjunction with the May 31 relocation of the village's communication department from Clinton to Market Street, Wing reported that it would cost in the neighborhood of $30,000 to move dispatch and build offices to accommodate the move. "Offices have to be moved, and built, to take care of the dispatch move," he said.

Trustee Norman Knapp asked the board to table discussions until it received an itemized list of "legitimate funds" needed for the relocation. "We're going to incur costs and we need to have realistic figures," he said.

Trustee James Whipple said the move is part of the sequence of events set in motion by the village's move to the 911 system. "We basically approved the concept of moving dispatch during those committee discussions," he told the board.

The communications department is slated to close, and move, on May 31.