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Council questions timeline for firehouse repairs amid $750,000 capital appropriation
Summary
Council members pressed administration officials on why the Palm/Sanford Avenue firehouse in the West Ward was not on a list of three firehouses receiving structural repairs through a temporary emergency appropriation; officials said Project Phoenix work and exhaust‑system replacement are underway and that written schedules will be provided.
Council members pressed city administrators on Wednesday about the scope and timing of planned structural repairs at city firehouses after a temporary emergency appropriation on the agenda included funding for three stations.
“This house is in desperate need of repair,” Councilman Kelly said of the Palm Street firehouse in the West Ward, describing firefighters who “meet in the meeting room because that's the only place that they don't get sick from the fumes” and reporting that some firefighters had nosebleeds and headaches. Kelly asked why that firehouse was not included in the list of three stations funded through the emergency appropriation for police and fire capital improvements.
Melvin Waldrop, chief of staff in the office of the business administrator, told the council the administration has been working…
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