In Warwick, which also had an allocation of 390 doses to administer to residents 75 years old and older, Mayor Frank Picozzi put out a robocall Thursday informing the community.

Within a half hour of his city’s registration process opening, all 390 doses were spoken for. On Friday, about a dozen city volunteers made return calls to schedule appointments.

“We didn’t want to register on site, because I was thinking that would take forever. Some of those phone calls lasted 15 to 20 minutes,” he said. Warwick residents were also scheduled to receive their vaccinations in East Greenwich.

That’s not the Warwick plan going forward. Picozzi and Fire Chief Peter McMichael, as well as other key city personnel, are looking for a central site from which they will be able to administer vaccinations as the doses become available.

Might there be a master plan for all municipalities?

“Not that I don’t want to partner up with other cities,” Picozzi said. “But you know, I think we can all take care of our own population better if we have to do it. And [Lt. Gov. Dan McKee] agrees with that. He’s a municipal guy. He has municipal experience. We have 39 cities and towns, and they’re all unique and distinctive.”

Picozzi was hesitant to be overly critical of the Department of Health for giving municipalities such short notice.

“They’re doing the best they can, but they just they need to include municipalities. They tell us what to do, but they don’t tell us how to do it. And they don’t provide much help,” he said.

Picozzi said he has had several talks with McKee. He’s looking forward to him taking over, and he was critical of Gov. Gina Raimondo for waiting for her confirmation as President Joe Biden’s Secretary of Commerce to leave office.

“She should step down,” Picozzi said. “She’s made the decision. I don’t want to criticize, but she’s made it made the decision to be somewhere else. She should just turn the reins over instead of worrying about herself.”