DOVER-FOXCROFT — A Millinocket official was told Tuesday that Piscataquis County would likely consider a donation to that town’s ambulance service for its coverage in the northern part of the county.

Acting Millinocket Fire Chief Wayne Campbell met Tuesday with Piscataquis County commissioners to ask consideration for either a written contract or a donation for the service his town provides the county.

Campbell said of the approximately 700 ambulance calls his department responded to last year, 10 were in Piscataquis County.

Although each ambulance service that provides services to remote communities bills clients and their insurance companies for individual calls, the county traditionally has made annual donations to the ambulance services.

Campbell said that although two of his town’s council members opposed the use of the ambulance and fire equipment outside town limits, he intended to carry on with the same services. The county has a contract with Millinocket for fire protection in the upper limits of the county, but that document expires this month.

Commissioners Tony Bartley, Eben DeWitt and Gordon Andrews favored renewing the fire contract at the same rates as last year, but opposed contracting for ambulance services, fearful that it would set a precedent.

The county now makes an annual donation based on the number of calls and the townships covered by each to the Three Rivers Ambulance in Milo and to the Charles A. Dean Ambulance in Greenville, each of which get $3,000. Both of these services provide coverage in the northern region of the county, according to County Clerk Carolyn Doore. The county has not previously made a donation to Millinocket because that town has never asked for it, she said.

The commissioners decided to research the number of amublance calls answered by the Millinocket ambulance compared with the population served to determine a donation amount.

Because the commissioners learned that the Land Use Regulatory Commission had not received a letter they sent earlier this year citing their opposition to a proposed subdivision on Schoodic Lake, they voted that another should be mailed to the state agency.

Richard Trott of Lakeview Realty Trust has proposed a 28-lot residential subdivision on 48 acres on the west shore of Schoodic Lake in Lakeview Plantation. The commissioners have sided with camp owners, who have expressed concerns about safety on the access road, pollution and water quality.

Commissioners also approved a $150 donation to the Moosehead Marine Museum; received notification that the Sheriff’s Department had received a $5,000 drunken driving emphasis grant; reviewed a petition signed by about 20 people who did not want the Bodfish Valley Road renamed for 911 purposes and accepted Susan Killam’s $700 bid for the care of Blanchard’s two cemeteries.