The five towns in the Beaver Dam Community Fire and Rescue Association are closing in on agreement for a new three-year contract. “From our end we are pretty much happy,” Neal Stippich, chairperson for the Beaver Dam Town Board said over the phone. At the moment, the contract is making its way through the Beaver Dam, Calamus, Lowell, Westford and Trenton town boards. This new iteration of the rural fire and EMS contract will put all services provided by the Beaver Dam Fire Department into one contract. Previously there were two separate contracts — one for fire and the other for EMS. As Beaver Dam Fire Chief Alan Mannel put it previously, including all services under one contract will eliminate “cherry-picking” specific services that the city provides. A town will have to take it all or leave it, which excludes the option for a town to contract with a private service.