Should Coatesville City Council member’s cell phone numbers be local exchange numbers?

Mrs. Jones wants the Coatesville City Council’s cell phones that are issued to all Coatesville residents to have local Coatesville area numbers.

I have found that many Coatesville residents on a fixed income have a minimal telephone plan that only includes Coatesville local exchange numbers. When they call a person who may live next door but has a cell phone with a local exchange out of the Coatesville local area, the person calling that cell phone receives a long distance charge for that call.

This was recorded at the City of Coatesville Special Budget Workshop meeting on Wednesday April 21, 2010. 

Coatesville City Council member Ingrid Jones, “I am looking at this from a poor person’s point of view.”

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