This past Monday night I attended a Community Forum on building a new firehouse and rescue squad facility in Valley Lee.
By my count over 100 folks showed up to hear about the plans for the new facilities. After presentations from Fire Department personnel (click here) several residents were given an opportunity to comment on the effort.
As Jason Babcock noted in his Enterprise article, the majority of speakers were against the $8 million expansion. A couple of the speakers recommended that the issue be put on a referendum for Second District citizens to vote on.
As with just about everything nowadays there is a Facebook page Concerned Citizens of the 2nd and 9th Districts where you can review of some of the questions and reservations about the effort.
If I absolutely had to take a side in this, I would land on the side of supporting the Fire and Rescue in their efforts to go bigger and better. These are issues that deal with health and safety. Anything we as a community can do to support them we should.
In the Second District, the Rescue Squad and Fire Department are combined and in a way this makes perfect sense. Studies show that responses for fire are down, while emergency service responses are up because all us boomers are getting older and needing transport to the hospital For more info (click here.)
I think George had a different “emergency” response in mind here.
As Jason Babcock noted in his Enterprise article, the majority of speakers were against the $8 million expansion. A couple of the speakers recommended that the issue be put on a referendum for Second District citizens to vote on.
As with just about everything nowadays there is a Facebook page Concerned Citizens of the 2nd and 9th Districts where you can review of some of the questions and reservations about the effort.
If I absolutely had to take a side in this, I would land on the side of supporting the Fire and Rescue in their efforts to go bigger and better. These are issues that deal with health and safety. Anything we as a community can do to support them we should.
In the Second District, the Rescue Squad and Fire Department are combined and in a way this makes perfect sense. Studies show that responses for fire are down, while emergency service responses are up because all us boomers are getting older and needing transport to the hospital For more info (click here.)
I think George had a different “emergency” response in mind here.