City Council Meeting

Imran Salikpublic commentwith the right number of personnel to handle emergencies effectively. When we're understaffed, we face greater risks on the fire ground and during medical calls. That compromises not only firefighter safety, but also the level of care and protection we can provide to our citizens. Reduced staffing leads to reduced service, times, fewer available units, and ultimately a community that isn't as well protected as it should be. Just as critical are our capital improvement projects. Our current ladder truck is outdated, becoming increasingly unreliable, thus more and more expensive to maintain. A new truck is vital to protecting our growing city, especially with the vertical development we're seeing. And our fire station. While it has served us well over the years, it is no longer suited to

Stacy HallRecognizing that the fire station is a very large budget item, I don't believe we're going to have any sort of work session between now and when we need to vote on the budget. Is that correct?

Catherine ReadSo, if, so if we don't have this in the of the nearest fire station maybe in the county, let's just say to the tank farm, as far as being able to respond to a fuel-driven incident?

Stacy HallI'm half joking and bringing this up but someone did message it to me there's been a request maybe to bring back bingo at the fire station which would also be a fundraiser opportunity

Anthony AmosCouncilmember Amos. I don't know the answer to this question, so I would appreciate someone's input from a zoning perspective. I've seen with the county that, you know, when certain developments go in, they can also proffer a condition for them to issue some kind of infrastructure money to – oh, I know – but they can proffer some type of infrastructure money for, for example, fire stations with lights. Can we do that with – Mr.

Brian FosterstaffSo just if I may, there are, we have seven items currently for the work session. And I just want to make sure, because if there's something you want to push off, you certainly can do that. But I'd rather ask you very quickly. So we have the fire station three update, which I think you wanted. sort of separate but in conjunction with that is the PPEA RFI that we did on that project with the old town hall update or I say update go over that I think Andrew will be able to share what the bids are and other concerns about the paint scheme and scope and so forth so we'll have all of that available with willard sherwood which was just at this evening that's the first four the fifth thing that we wanted to have is we have done our procurement for the community survey and