A local city is exploring how it can save those precious minutes and ultimately lives. Since 2008 Somerset county's 911 dispatch has been the public service answering point or PSAP for both Somerset and Kennebec county. Due to staffing shortages and an uptick in caller frequency the dispatch recently announced that they will no longer service Kennebec county after June of this year. Waterville officials say they see the announcement as a blessing in disguise because the city is now planning on restoring its call center to its former size to become its own PSAP. Waterville's acting city manager Bill Post says, "Waterville was a PSAP back in the early 2000s, it was changed by state law so we've been in communication with the state and all of our other communities in the area that are also losing services".