The Council will have a meeting on Monday night and that’s it for August.  It’s affectionately known as the “August Recess” but only the council stops meeting – all of the other committees still go.  Anyway, the “Conceptual Plan” that is designed to bring some order (?) to the fire and rescue situation will be presented.  There will also be some other last minut stuff, primarily finance, that will be acted upon.

The Ad-Hoc public safety committee had a meeting last night.  I presented the proposed concept for the future structure of the Fire and Rescue services in our fair City at that meeting.  There weren’t a whole lot of questions and I thought that some of the points that were raised had merit.  I expect that we will be looking at some of the finer points of the proposal as we get down to the business of writing the ordinance.  The committee refered the concept to the entire Council for consideration.  That will be Monday night (as it currently stands).  If the Council likes it, they may order staff to reduce the concept to an ordinance.

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