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Commissioners consider fire and airport operations matters: reimbursements, contracts and a new Fire Commission
Summary
At the Sept. 8 briefing, Forsyth County staff presented multiple public-safety and airport items: reimbursements for fire station alert-system upgrades, a contract for annual NFPA physicals, formation of a Forsyth County Fire Commission, maintenance for an Oshkosh crash truck and an FAA land lease for runway approach lighting.
Forsyth County staff presented several public-safety and airport items to commissioners during the Sept. 8 briefing, asking for guidance ahead of formal action at the Sept. 11 meeting.
Fire and emergency communications: Budget staff reported that the county had previously appropriated $181,800 for mock alert station alerting upgrades for several fire departments. Three departments had already purchased equipment for four station upgrades, and the county would reimburse a total of $45,450 (four stations at $11,362.50 each) from countywide overlay fire tax fund balance. Commissioners discussed the public-facing name "mock alert" and the potential for confusion.
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