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City manager reports on staffing, antique mall demolition and façade grants
Summary
City Manager Bauer updated council on personnel plans (two additional firefighters and two police hires tied partly to COPS grant), progress on the long-delayed antique mall demolition with potential salvage of historic timbers, and facade-improvement applications with $250,000 available and roughly $150,000 requested to date.
City Manager Bauer used the council's Dec. 2 meeting to review several operational items and local projects.
On staffing, Bauer said the fire department currently has nine full-time positions filled and the draft 2026 budget includes two additional firefighter positions; the city is preparing to recruit and may use NTN testing to streamline civil-service testing for fire applicants. On police staffing he reported one open position with a candidate in final steps and said two additional officers are…
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