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Council introduces $6 million public-safety sales-tax allocation for fire equipment; final hearing scheduled March 11
Summary
Council introduced a companion resolution to the budget amendment that allocates $6 million from the public-safety sales tax for fire equipment, technology upgrades and station construction; the item will return for a March 11 public hearing.
City staff introduced a resolution to allocate an additional $6,000,000 from the public-safety sales-tax fund for firefighting equipment, technology upgrades and station construction and remodel. The council voted to introduce the resolution and set a final hearing for March 11.
Chris York, the city's budget director, said the $6,000,000 increase would cover defibrillators, self-contained breathing apparatus and upgrades at Station 15, along with technology projects such as computer-aided-dispatch improvements and other equipment purchases. “That will purchase defibrillators as well as self contained breathing apparatus,” York said, adding $1,000,000 would go toward fire-technology projects and another $2,000,000 for station construction and remodel.
The resolution is a companion item to the budget amendment introduced earlier in the meeting; both measures were introduced by unanimous council vote and will return for formal public hearings in March.
